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Lascaux Cave
This complex of subterranean chambers is one of the most elaborately painted caverns known. Located in southwestern France it was discovered in 1940 by four teenage boys, Georges Agnel, Jacques Marsal, Marcel Ravidat, and Simon Coencas. Marcel's dog, Robot, had gotten trapped in the cave and the boys wriggled in after him.
The paintings, of which there are nearly 2,000, are about 17,000 years old. About half represent large game animals — aurochs, bison, horses, and stags — many of which seem frozen in rapid motion. The various chambers of the cavern are named: the Great Hall of the Bulls, the Painted Gallery, the Chamber of Engravings, the Lateral Passage, the Shaft of the Dead Man, and the Chamber of Felines.
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