The famous Venus of Willendorf sculpture, estimated to be over 20,000 years old and discovered in Austria in 1908, has been broken. The 11 cm tall statuette is considered an important symbol of fertility from the Paleolithic era due to its exaggerated female features.

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A famous Sculpture the Venus of Willendorf has been broken! What a disaster!
It was found by archaeologist Josef Szombathy, at a Paleolithic site near willendorf, a
village in lower Austria, in 1908.
You may not think this sculpture is that important to you but you are wrong.
The Venus of Willendorf, also known as the Woman of Willendorf, is 11 cm high,
very small but very important. It is a statuette of a female estimated to have been
made between 22,000 B.C.E and 21,000 B.C.E. WOW she is old.
It is carved from an oolitic limestone that is not local to the area, and tinted with red
ochre.
The large sized breasts and abdomen, and the detail put into the vulva, have led
scholars to interpret the figure as a fertility symbol.