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| c. 31,000 years ago |
| | Rhinoceroses, lions and mammoth feature on the walls of the Chauvet cave, in southern France | |
| | Rhinoceros in the Chauvet cave
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| c. 30,000 years ago |
| | Painted and engraved images, on the rock face in a cave near Twyfelfontein in Namibia, date from this period | |
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| c. 16,000 years ago |
| | The walls of the complex of caves at Lascaux in France are covered, over the years, with a vast number of paintings of animals | |
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| c. 15,000 years ago |
| | The walls of Altamira, an extensive cave in Spain, are decorated with paintings and engraved images of horses, deer and above all bison | |
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| c. 3100 BC |
| | The Egyptians paint murals on the walls of tombs, designed to help the occupants in the next world | |
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| c. 1850 BC |
| | Wrestlers are painted on the walls of an Egyptian tomb, performing most of the holds and falls still in use today | |
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| c. 1600 BC |
| | A bull-fighting fresco in the palace of Knossos is linked with the island's cult of the bull | |
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| c. 1550 BC |
| | Egyptian tombs include paintings of a kind to help the occupants in the next world, whether in the Book of the Dead or on the walls | |
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| c. 1525 BC |
| | The eruption of a volcano, on the island of Thera, entombs and preserves houses with frescoes in the Minoan city of Akrotiri | |
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| c. 550 BC |
| | The murals of Etruscan tombs, such as the Tomb of the Lionesses in Tarquinia, give a lively glimpse of an earlier tradition in Greek art | |
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