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Lascaux Paintings
Well known as “the prehistoric Sistine Chapel”, the Lascaux Caves are a cave series located in southwestern France decorated with some of the most impressive and famous cave paintings. It contains about 2000 images and estimated to be 17,000 years old. Most of the major images have been painted onto the walls using mineral pigments.
Many paintings are too faint to detect. The cave painters are supposed very skillful in their work. The most famous part of the cave is the Great Hall of the Bulls where bulls, equines, and stags are portrayed.
