This 27,000-year-old cave drawing may be the oldest human portrait on record. It was found on the wall of a cave near Angoulême, France. From The Times:
Drawn with calcium carbonate, and using the bumps in the wall to give form to the face, it features two horizontal lines for the eyes, another for the mouth and a vertical line for the nose. "The portrait of this face is unique," said Jean Airvaux, a researcher at the French Directorate of Cultural Affairs. "We have other drawings, but they are more recent. Here, it could be the oldest representation of a human face."
