Cave Of Forgotten Dreams Analysis

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Cave of forgotten dreams is a documentary that gives an insightful view of a great and remarkable oldest cave art has been found in the world. That film has been made based on a lot of studies by a group of scientists and researchers which have gone inside the cave. A number of paintings which found were astonishing that brought the scientists back in time to a period that dating about 30,000-32,000 years ago.(the film of the Cave of Forgotten Dreams, 1994) Of course with the new scientific methods the researchers have covered a lot of facts about the paintings, but will they be able to find out everything back to a such a long time back then. Scientists' big knowledge helped them to have clear ideas and facts about the cave's

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