Lascaux Cave
Americannoun
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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
In the 1950s, radiocarbon dating on paintings in the Lascaux Cave in southern France showed that the images — of horses and other animals — were made 15,500 years ago.
From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2018
Lascaux Cave, located near Montignac, France, contains more than 2,000 paintings and engravings, which date to some 15,000 or more years ago.
From Scientific American • Feb. 19, 2013
For more than 16,000 years, the prehistoric paintings in France's famed Lascaux Cave survived in splendid isolation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since then, tourists and art students have flocked into the Lascaux Cave, bringing with them damp air which threatened the existence of what they came to see.
From Time Magazine Archive
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