QUICK FACTS
Name: Tumba Madžari Great Mother
What it is: A clay sculpture
Where it is from: Skopje, North Macedonia
When it was made: Sixth millennium B.C.
In 1981, a clay sculpture called the "Great Mother" was discovered in an ancient village in North Macedonia known as Tumba Madžari. The unusual cube shape of the woman's lower half is thought to mimic the design of the Stone Age houses that she was intended to protect nearly 8,000 years ago.
