To the untrained eye to see artworks, this small volcanic rock piece resembling a mysterious female statue appears, but under a microscope, grooves around the neck and on the sides show intentional revision marks much like those made in artwork by sharp iron tools. With a human being carved on it with a stone carving tool.

The statue, Venus Pond Ram, which was called the (Venus of Berekhat Ram) was controversial, as many paleontologists considered it a product of erosion or an act of erosion and not an intentional creative work, but after the excavation of a similar statue in Tan-Tan, Morocco, which reinforced the theory that it is a piece of art. Or a work of art that received great value as the oldest work of art in the world by the existence of humans themselves, dating the rock from 230 thousand - 700 thousand years BC.

That is, its age precedes the age of primitive man. It may have been made by Homo erectus. A statue (Venus of Berekhat Ram) was found near Lake Masada, which rises 950 meters in the Golan in Syria. This piece was carved from the porous tuff stone that forms When volcanic ash settles on the ground, it is often like a pumice stone, The statue is 3.5 cm long and has three grooved notches drilled with a sharp tool of iron. There is a deep slit indicating that the human neck and other sculptures show the head and arms.

The artifact was found between two layers of volcanic ash, the upper layer was dated from about 230 thousand years BC and the lower layer was 700 thousand years BC, which indicates that the stone was made between these two periods and there was a similar discovery in Morocco confined between the two layers 200 One thousand - 500 thousand.

Humans had not developed anatomically at the time, just as Neanderthals did not. For Homo erectus in that period, Homo erectus appeared about two million years ago in Africa. As for the rest of the world since 70 thousand years BC, Homo erectus used complex tools and lived in farming and hunting societies and knew fire And cooking even though they were unable to speak.

Paleontologists are still debating whether the statue is a product of erosion or is it a piece of art, but there is a lot of irrefutable evidence for the existence of artworks in that time period, such as the Bim Matakka inscriptions in Madhya Pradesh, in India, dating from 290,000 years to 700,000 Year BC, but art did not appear in human behavior until 50 thousand years BC.