7,000-year-old sculpture resembling an alien creature links Stone Age societies

Archaeologists have dug up something otherworldly.

A mysterious clay figurine dating back 7,000 years was recently discovered in the Arabian Gulf — and it bears a striking resemblance to modern depictions of alien visitors to Earth.

Researchers at Bahra 1, a prehistoric site in the north of Kuwait, described the artifact as a “small, finely crafted head, with slanted eyes, a flat nose and an elongated skull.”

It’s the first such find in the region, they noted, though others with a similar countenance have turned up at Mesopotamian sites and are typical of others related to the Neolithic Ubaid community, who settled in the Arabian Gulf during the sixth millennium B.C. 

“[The] discovery of the figurine was a total surprise for the whole team,” Agnieszka Szymczak, an expedition leader, told Live Science.