Lucy’s legacy: ancient hominin arrives in Prague the first in Europe

Prague’s newest visitor is 3.2 million years old. Lucy, the famed Australopithecus afarensis fossil, has arrived in the Czech capital alongside Selam, a young child of the same species, for a groundbreaking exhibition on human evolution.

Discovered in Ethiopia in 1974, Lucy revolutionized our understanding of human origins.

Her skeletal remains provided the first clear evidence of bipedalism—walking upright—a key milestone in…