Trabajos de Prehistoria (English)
Romans:
Hannibal and the 2nd Punic War
Pliny's Letters to the Spanish-born Roman Emperor Trajan
Fundaciion de Estudios Romanos
Forum Romanum (English)
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Prehistoric Spain:
Trabajos de Prehistoria (English) |
| These paintingss of animals are all from the cave at Altamira, in Spain. The painted ceiling at Altamira Cave remains the most famous of all Paleolithic art works. The decorated area measures 220 yards long by 10 yards wide. | |||
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Romans: Hannibal and the 2nd Punic War Pliny's Letters to the Spanish-born Roman Emperor Trajan Fundaciion de Estudios Romanos Forum Romanum (English) |
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found in 1879, when Don Marcelino Sanza de Sautuola took his young daughter Maria with him to the cave of Altamira to look for small portable objects which might have dated from prehistoric times. Glancing up at the low ceiling, Maria discovered something more remarkable, an area covered with polychrome paintings of bison.
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| Below is a view of the entire ceiling. | |||
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| The Sistine Chapel of Paleolithic Europe |