In 1890, a group of gold miners was knee deep in a murky peat bog in the Ural Mountains of Russia, digging for something valuable. What they found was not gold. It was something stranger, and in many ways, much more important. Slowly, carved wooden pieces emerged from the water’s dark depths and were assembled into what we now know as the Shigir Idol, a giant wooden monument thousands of years older than Stonehenge.
Here's the wild part: the longer scientists look at it, the older it gets.
