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The artist’s profile page specifies that the image was created with Photoshop on October 26, 2008 for the contest (archived link).
Before its acquisition by DesignCrowd, Wortb000 was a popular image sharing website that hosted image manipulation contests (archived link).
AFP has previously debunked claims involving images that were initially shared on the website, including here and here.
2008 excavation
A separate reverse image search on the Russian search engine Yandex found the unaltered image is an AFP photo taken in June 2008.
