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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

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“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

Each calendar date touches on an event — say, Michelangelo acquiring the marble for his David or the discovery of the Lascaux caves in France, which reportedly inspired Picasso to declare, “We have invented nothing!”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 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

Calvin found a whole Caves of Lascaux tour on his tablet.

From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor