12 September 2022 at 08:31
Β Horses in the Lascaux Cave complex. On September 12, 1940 four teenage boys chasing their dog Robot into a partially obscured cave mouth came upon something extraordinary. Β Marcel Ravidat, Jacques Marsal, Georges Agnel, and Simon Coencas stumbled upon a vast trove of paintings on the walls of the cave complex near the village of Montignac, in the Department of Dordogne , France. The dog Robot who sniffed out the hidden entrance to Lascaux, with two of the human-co-discoverers The Lascaux Cave complex was eventually found to include several rooms or galleries including those designated as the Great Hall of the Bulls , the Lateral Passage , the Shaft of the Dead Man , the Chamber of Engravings , the Painted Gallery , and the Chamber o...