• Lascaux may be the most beautiful Paleolithic painted cave in the world. It contains more than 1500 pictures of animals, all of them are 17,000 years old.
  • Known as Lascaux II, the 'reproduction' caves are a copy of most of the prehistoric paintings contained in the original Lascaux caves, 200 metres away.
  • The Lascaux caves contain nearly 2,000 painted and engraved figures. There are animals, human figures, and abstract signs.
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  • Significance: Lascaux cave, discovered in 1940, is a horizontal, wet cave covering 325 meters over its various galleries.
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  • Lascaux Cave is a rock shelter in the Dordogne Valley of France with fabulous cave paintings, dated to between 15,000 and 17,000 years ago.
  • Luckily, the magnificence of the Lascaux Cave can still be experienced in earnest – several life sized replicas of the cave panels were created.
  • In 1983, a carefully executed replica known as Lascaux II opened to the public. Located on the same hill as the original, the replica cave took 10 years to complete.