France has many prehistoric sites to explore. One such site is the Lascaux cave paintings discovered on Sept 12, 1940.
If the National Museum of Natural History in Paris doesn’t satisfy your Inner Paleontologist, France has many prehistoric sites to visit.
Four teenagers discovered Lascaux cave when they followed a dog down a narrow passageway on September 12, 1940. Click here for more information from History.com on the 15,000 – 17,000-year-old cave paintings from the Upper Paleolithic Period.
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Address: 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris (5th arrondissement).
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