Fluorescent Glow Reveals Hidden Glaze on Chauvet Cave’s Ancient Art

Oct 28, 2026 - 21:15
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Fluorescent Glow Reveals Hidden Glaze on Chauvet Cave’s Ancient Art
The Horses panel in Chauvet Cave, France. Image credit: Boulard et al., doi: 10.1021/acsomega.6c05061.

Some of the oldest drawings known to humanity, made roughly 37,000 years ago in France’s Chauvet Cave, are covered by a thin, translucent film of calcite that cannot be seen with the naked eye.

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