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Werner Herzog releases ancient paintings from history

By David Robson

9 March 2011

Capturing the world’s oldest cave paintings in 3D is the stroke of genius in the film Caves of Forgotten Dreams by Werner Herzog

Caves of Forgotten Dreams, a 3D documentary to be released in the first half of 2011 by Werner Herzog

IN 1994, Jean-Marie Chauvet and two friends felt a draft of air coming from a small opening in the side of a cliff in the French countryside. Easing themselves through a narrow shaft, they came into a labyrinth of chambers.

It must have felt like a step back in time. The skulls of cave lions and cave bears,…

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