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Leang Tedongnge: World’s Oldest Figurative Cave Painting
Discover Leang Tedongnge on Sulawesi — home of the world’s oldest known figurative artwork, a 45,500-year-old painting of a Sulawesi warty pig.
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Ta’ Għejżu Cave Gozo: Malta’s Temple-Period Ritual Cave
Discover Ta’ Għejżu Cave — Gozo’s 5,500-year-old ritual cave on the Xagħra plateau, beside Malta’s great Xagħra Circle hypogeum and the Ä gantija…
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Yanxia Cave Hangzhou: China’s Earliest Sixteen Arhats
Discover Yanxia Cave on Hangzhou’s South Peak — one of China’s earliest complete Sixteen Arhats stone-carving sets, dating to the Wuyue Kingdom…
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Visvakarma Cave: Ellora’s Only Buddhist Chaitya Hall
Discover Visvakarma Cave — Ellora’s only Buddhist chaitya hall, carved around 650 CE with a 27-foot stupa and an 11-foot seated Buddha…
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Theopetra Cave: Greece’s 130,000-Year Continuous Site
Explore Theopetra Cave near Meteora — an unbroken 130,000-year human record from Neanderthals to the Neolithic, plus Greece’s oldest man-made structure.
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Sittanavasal Cave: South India’s Oldest Jain Frescoes
Painted around 850 CE, Sittanavasal Cave in Tamil Nadu holds South India’s oldest Jain frescoes — explore its lotus-pond murals and 17…