Lascaux

c. 17,000 BC

Lascaux

The bestiary of Lascaux, bulls, horses, stags, an aurochs four metres long, painted on the cave walls of southwest France during the late Paleolithic. Discovered in 1940 by four teenagers and a dog called Robot. Closed to the public in 1963 to slow the lichen.

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