The Oldest Man-made Things in the World 



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The oldest known sculp- 

 ture represents a seated 

 man clasping an oval- 

 shaped vase. It is prob- 

 ably 7,000 years old and 

 bears witness to primi- 

 tive man's conception of 

 beauty and manly grace 



The finger imprint in the circle preserves to us the 

 oldest evidence of man, estimated at 250,000 years 



At left above is the earliest known painting of a Christian subject on canvas — the Saints 

 Raphael, Michael and Gabriel. At right above are two baby shirts, the oldest known shirts 



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