
c. 17,000 BCE
The Painting of Lascaux
Lascaux · Dordogne, France · Cultural · Early Antiquity
The story
Horses, aurochs and stags run across the walls by lamplight.
Rediscovered by teenagers in 1940, the cave reshaped ideas of early human imagination.
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