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Why are these 32 symbols found in caves all over Europe | Genevieve von Petzinger

  There’s something about caves, a shadowy opening in a limestone cliff that draws you in As you pass through the portal between light and dark. You enter a subterranean world, a place of perpetual gloom of earthy smells of hushed silence Long ago in Europe.   Ancient people also entered these underground worlds As witnesses to their passage.   They left behind mysterious, engravings and paintings, like this panel of human triangles and zigzags from Ojo Guare in Spain.   You now walk the same path […]

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