The Chauvet cave, France, the art of prehistory. In 1994, three friends discovered in the south of France a cave with magnificent cave paintings, more than 30,000 years old. Under the ground of the Ardèche region, an invaluable treasure is hidden for its antiquity, its conservation and the pictorial quality of the representations; one of the oldest and most splendid examples of Arieñaciense parietal art, dating approx. between 40,000 and 30,000 B.C. | Archeology and art