It was a beautiful afternoon in the woods near who was at the front let out a loud gesp. When be
the village of Montignac. The sky was blue and
pointed his torch at the wall, everyone was amared to
autumn leaves covered the ground. Four friends see the walls covered with colourful pictures of
strolled happily among the tall trees, telling stories horses, deer and axen. The friends tan quickly to
about treasures that people had hidden in the forest. school and told their teacher all about their fantastic
As they were walking, one of the boys fell over. discovery. She called an expert who went immediately
When the others ran to help him, they saw that there
to examine the paintings
was a hole in the ground. Could this be a tunnel with Later that day, their teacher asked the boys to
hidden treasures in it? The boys started to dig, trying stay behind after school. They thought that they had
to make the hole bigger so that they could climb in done something wrong, but they were relieved when
and have a look. By this time though, it was getting they saw their teacher's smiling face. The expert had
dark and they didn't have a torch, so they decided to confirmed that the boys were the first modern people
come back early the next day.
to lay eyes upon the famous Lascaux paintings, which
3 They returned to the woods before school. One were at least 17,000 years old. They felt really proud.
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