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Great Hall of the Bulls

Great Hall of the Bulls

Artist unknown
17000 BC · Lascaux, France

Painters worked here by lamplight seventeen thousand years ago. Four boys found the cave in 1940, and it was sealed again in 1963.

★ 8.6