LASCAUX CAVES, DORDOGNE FRANCE~  These legendary grottos are home to hundreds of cave paintings from the Paleolithic Age. Only a few years after Lascaux was opened to visitors, the art began to deteriorate; it was closed to the public in 1963, and a replica of the cave opened in the 1980s. You can check see reproductions of all those horses, bison and stag effigies on a tour of Lascaux II, but only very select scientists are allowed to enter the original sites.

LASCAUX CAVES, DORDOGNE FRANCE~ These legendary grottos are home to hundreds of cave paintings from the Paleolithic Age. Only a few years after Lascaux was opened to visitors, the art began to deteriorate; it was closed to the public in 1963, and a replica of the cave opened in the 1980s. You can check see reproductions of all those horses, bison and stag effigies on a tour of Lascaux II, but only very select scientists are allowed to enter the original sites.

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