Ardèche

The Cave of Forgotten Dreams is one of the oldest caves of all time. In fact, it is determined that the cave existed for about 30,000-33,000 years (Herzog, 2010). In 1994, a small group of French scientist lead by Jean-Marie Chauvet discovered the cave, and when the French government realized how precious it was, they shut off the access to it (Herzog, 2010). However, Werner Herzog a documentary filmmaker got permission to access the cave. He believed that the Chauvet Cave contains most of the oldest human art ever discovered, so he gathered a group of researchers and they started their journey trying to understand what happened there in over 32,000 years ago. When researchers arrived to the Chauvet Cave, they realized that it is narrow and can hardly fit one person at a time and by studying the cave’s dimensions they found that it is about 1300 feet long (Herzog, 2010). The researchers discovered in their journey a very large number of paintings, including different kinds of animals and figures. One of their marvelous discoveries is the panel of red dots; it is a group of dots placed in a wall representing a big mammoth (Herzog, 2010). By looking at the dots equal sizes, researchers determined that they were all made by only one person’s right-hand palm who seemed to have a crooked finger (Herzog, 2010). Researchers were able to follow his hand later in the cave as they found negative and positive red handprints throughout. Another unique discovery was the red bears figure,…

The cave of Chauvet may be the most important discovery of cave work ever. Some historians believe that the Cave may possibly some of the oldest cave art know to the world. The cave is very beautiful and historical and it is very important to the study of cave art. The cave was discover on the eighteenth of December, Nineteen Ninety Four. The cave was accidently discovered when Jean-Marie Chauvet and his two other speleologists friends were wondering around the Ardèche Valley, in southern…

In September,1985 a professional diver named Henri Cosquer made an amazing discovery. He had discovered a cave. At Ardeche department, on the Mediterranean coast, close to the mouth of the Rhone River miles from Marseilles. The cave was discovered by accident. After Cosquer discovered the cave, he made the amazing cave a secret, however ,he went back several times. One day when Henri went with a group of divers to the cave Henri discovered the paintings. So he decided to contact an…

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Papillon written by Henri Charriere was published in 1969. The book is a memoir and autobiography about the life of Charriere in prison and his multiple attempts at escape. Papillon finds himself in court waiting for his trial on the account of a murder of a “pimp and stool pigeon”. Although his attorney assured him that there was no real evidence, he was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. Henri Charrière, or commonly known as Papillon, was born on November 16th 1968 in…