{"id":7215,"date":"2026-09-12T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7215"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:34:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:34:58","slug":"caves-of-lascaux-were-found-in-1940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7215","title":{"rendered":"Lascaux Was Discovered in 1940"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10750\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10750\" class=\"wp-image-10750 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Caves-of-Lascaux-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Caves of Lascaux\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caves of Lascaux<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Lascaux was discovered in 1940<\/strong>. Located in southwestern France, the Lascaux cave was found by a young man named Marcel Ravidat. The series of caves contain about 6,000 paintings, which can be organized into three groups: animals, humans, and abstract creations. The cave was opened to tourists in 1948, but light, changes in air temperature, and carbon dioxide exhaled by humans took a toll on the works of art. The real cave was closed in 1963, and a simulation of the cave was opened nearby. Mold in the real cave continues to be a problem. Children can visit the official <strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">(and amazing) <\/span><\/strong>website at: <a href=\"https:\/\/archeologie.culture.gouv.fr\/lascaux\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Caves of Lascaux.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lascaux was discovered in 1940. Located in southwestern France, the Lascaux cave was found by a young man named Marcel Ravidat. The series of caves contain about 6,000 paintings, which can be organized into three groups: animals, humans, and abstract creations. The cave was opened to tourists in 1948, but light, changes in air temperature, <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7215' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5255,1562,408,1563,5853],"class_list":["post-7215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5255","tag-caves-of-lascaux","tag-france","tag-marcel-ravidat","tag-september-12","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7215"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29713,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions\/29713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}