Lascaux Cave Painting

September 12, 1940 Lascaux cave paintings discovered. Lascaux, replica in the Brno museum Anthropos. The cave was discovered by four teenagers, Marcel Ravidat, Jacques Marsal, Georges Agnel, and Simon Coencas after following their dog down a narrow entrance into a cavern.

The 15,000- to 17,000-year-old Upper Paleolithic paintings consist mostly of realistic images of large animals, including aurochs, most of which are known from fossil evidence to have lived in the area at the time.

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