Famous Venus of Dolní Věstonice returns to Brno

The famous Venus of Dolní Věstonice, a ceramic statuette of a naked woman thought to be 29,000 years old, was transported from Prague to Brno by the Czech police under tight security measures on Tuesday morning and returned to the Moravian Regional Museum. Believed to be one of the oldest of its kind in the world, the priceless artefact was found at a Stone Age settlement in the Moravian basin south of Brno in 1925, but is rarely shown to the public. It was on display at the National Museum in Prague as part of a joint exhibition from last September to the end of February this year.