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35,000-Year-Old Mammoth Sculpture Found in Germany In southwestern Germany, an American archaeologist and his German colleagues have found the oldest mammoth-ivory carving known to modern science. And even at 35,000 years old, it's still intact. The 35,000-year-old mammoth figurine was revealed on Wednesday. REUTERS Archaeologists at the University of Tübingen have recovered the first entirely intact woolly mammoth figurine from the Swabian Jura, a 220-meter long plateau in the state of Baden-Württemberg, thought to have been made by the first modern humans some 35,000 years ago. It is believed to be the oldest ivory carving ever found. "You can be...

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China Detains Over 35,000 Protestors Ming Bao News – Translated by The Epoch Times Sep 14, 2004 Chinese police scuffle with disgruntled citizens. (AFP/Getty Images) According to a report from China Human Rights, headquartered in New York, China has detained about 36,000 people for protesting in Beijing just before the start of the Fourth Plenary Conference of the Chinese Communist Party. The report stated that the police destroyed temporary housing erected by the protestors and took away their belongings. Since last week, about 36,000 people were arrested and some were severely beaten. The purpose of this special action seems to...

Potholers uncover 35,000-year-old human jawbone Scientists believe a 35,000-year-old jawbone may be the oldest relic of modern human ancestors discovered in Europe. The fossil was found by potholers in a cave once used by hibernating bears in Romania's Carpathian Mountains. Experts dated it to between 34,000 and 36,000 years ago - a period during which early modern humans co-existed with the last of the Neanderthals. Other bones from the same cave - a skull fragment, a facial skeleton and a partial brain case - are still undergoing analysis, but thought to be the same age. Professor Erik Trinkaus, from Washington...