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Lascaux Cave Paintings

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Lascaux Cave Paintings

Anonymous (Palaeolithic), c. 17000 BC

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A set of cave paintings in the Dordogne (France), found by chance in September 1940 by four teenagers and a dog called Robot. More than six hundred figures, mostly horses, deer, aurochs and bison, done in ochre and charcoal. The best known part, the “Hall of the Bulls”, holds a five metre aurochs: the largest figure known in cave art.

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