Ancient cave paintings in Ardeche " The Pont d'Arc Cavern " Art and travel review
Art lovers and archeologists gasped when news spread of cave drawings discovered in the Ardeche region of southeast France in December 1994. Painted before the ice age, the roughly 400 images of horses, mammoths and aurochs, as well as predators such as lions, panthers and bears seldom seen in cave art, seemed pristine in comparison