The Painting of Lascaux

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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