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Lascaux

British  
/ lasko /

noun

  1. the site of a cave in SW France, in the Dordogne: contains Palaeolithic wall drawings and paintings

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Reagan called film “the world’s most enduring art form,” which must have puzzled admirers of Mozart, Giotto and the Lascaux Cave paintings.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2023

“It is unthinkable that any culture would knowingly destroy Stonehenge or the Egyptian pyramids or the Lascaux caves in France,” Plibersek told Parliament.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2022

Not to mention the caves at Lascaux, the Dead Sea Scrolls .

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2021

About 17,000 years ago, in the caves of Lascaux, France, ancestors drew on grotto walls, depicting equines, stags, bison, aurochs and felines.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2020

Since 1963, the caves at Lascaux have been closed to the public.

From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell

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