"Our advertising policies do not allow nudity or implied
"We apologise for the error and have let the advertiser know we are approving their ad," she added.
The controversy began in December when Italian arts activist Laura Ghianda posted a picture of the artwork on the social networking site which went viral.
After it was censored she said that "this statue is not 'dangerously pornographic'. The war on human culture and modern intellectualism will not be tolerated."
Her outrage was echoed by Vienna's Natural History Museum, where the statue is displayed.
"Let the Venus be naked! Since 29,500 years she shows herself as prehistoric fertility symbol without any clothes. Now Facebook censors it and upsets the community," the museum said in a statement.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-03-facebook-apologises-censoring-prehistoric-venus.html#jCp
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