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These 9000 year old statues are the oldest artwork in the Louvre.
The ʿAin Ghazal statues are large-scale lime plaster and reed statues discovered at the archaeological site of ʿAin Ghazal in Amman, Jordan, dating back to approximately 9,000 years ago (made between 7200 BC and 6250 BCE), from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic C period.
A total of 15 statues and 15 busts were discovered in 1983 and 1985 in two underground caches, created about 200 years apart.
https://www.louvre.fr/en/explore/the-palace/treasures-of-the-eastern-mediterranean 
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