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Lascaux

cave in southwestern France famous for its Paleolithic cave paintings
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Summary

Lascaux is a cave with prehistoric art[1]. Lascaux ranks in the top 2% of cave with prehistoric art entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (22,358 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Marcel Ravidat[3]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Montignac-Lascaux[4]
  • Country: France[5]
  • Instance of: paleolithic site[6]
  • Part of: Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley[7]
  • Commons category: Lascaux[8]
  • Time of discovery or invention: September 12, 1940[9], -16000-00-00T00:00:00Z[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Lascaux[11]
  • Commons gallery: Grotte de Lascaux[12]
  • Heritage designation: classified historical monument[13], part of UNESCO World Heritage Site[14]
  • Has characteristic: tourist attraction[15]
  • World Heritage criteria: (i)[16], (iii)[17]
  • Significant place: Lascaux 2[18], Lascaux IV[19]
  • P14541: 2xzhh[20]

Why It Matters

Lascaux has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] Lascaux is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

Related Entities

France

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . Base Mérimée. wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . Base Mérimée. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Base Mérimée. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . heritage site. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 17d ago · Triedros · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    World heritage criteria → (i), (iii)
    Wikipedia languages → ['als', 'ar', 'arz', 'az', 'be', 'bg', 'br', 'bs', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'cv',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ World heritage criteria: (i)"
  2. 11w ago · ~2026-42059-75 · 2026-07-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 45.053766, 'lon': 1.170959}
    Located in/on physical feature → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Coordinate location: 45°3'13.558"N, 1°10'15.452"E"
  3. 13w ago · Père Igor · 2026-07-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in/on physical feature → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Located in the administrative territorial entity: Dordogne"
  4. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2xzhh
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  5. 15w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → cave with prehistoric art, paleolithic site
    Has characteristic → tourist attraction
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39782|batch #39782]]: Move Q570116 from P31 -> P1552"
  6. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0413577-Lascaux-Francie-jeskyne
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0413577-Lascaux-Francie-jeskyne, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  7. 20w ago · Torquatus · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Pleiades id → 802425707
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Pleiades id: 802425707"
  8. 23w ago · ~2026-28313-32 · 2026-05-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|2 */ Heritage designation: part of UNESCO World Heritage Site"
  9. 23w ago · Triggerhippie4 · 2026-05-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → cave with prehistoric art, paleolithic site
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Instance of: paleolithic site"
  10. 24w ago · Ikan · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Significant place → Lascaux 2, Lascaux IV
    Local thumb → —
    Wolfram language entity code → Entity["Cave", "GrotteDeLascaux::8842p"]
    Part of → Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Wolfram language entity code: Entity["Cave", "GrotteDeLascaux::8842p"], [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/257131|batch #257131]]"
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