National Archaeological Museum (Madrid)
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The National Archaeological Museum is a museum in Madrid, Spain. It is located on Calle de Serrano beside the Plaza de Colón, sharing its building with the National Library of Spain.
National Archaeological Museum (Madrid)
Laying of the first stone of the building destined for the National Archaeological Museum and the National Library in 1866
Bicha of Balazote
Lady of Elche
Cave of Altamira
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The Cave of Altamira is a cave complex, located near the historic town of Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain. It is renowned for prehistoric cave art featuring charcoal drawings and polychrome paintings of contemporary local fauna and human hands. The earliest paintings were applied during the Upper Paleolithic, around 36,000 years ago. The site was discovered in 1868 by Modesto Cubillas and subsequently studied by Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola.
Magdalenian polychrome bison
Bison on the roof of the pit.
Great hall of polychromes of Altamira, published by M. Sanz de Sautuola in 1880.
Reproduction of the Cave of Altamira in the Deutsches Museum, Munich.