Images Dated 12th July 2012

Lascaux II cave painting replica C013/7378

Lascaux II replica of a Lascaux cave painting. These are deer and auroch figures in the Great Hall of the Bulls'. The original Lascaux cave was closed to the public in 1963. The full-scale Lascaux II replica opened nearby in 1983. The Lascaux cave paintings in south-western France, around 17, 000 years old, were painted by Cro-Magnon man, an early European culture of modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens), using red, brown and yellow ochre, and black manganese dioxide. They may have had religious and artistic significance. Photographed in 2010

© PHILIPPE PSAILA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Finland. Turku. Qwensel House. Bourgeois housing from the au

Finland. Turku. Qwensel House. Bourgeois housing from the autarchic times. Built in 1700. Qwensel House operates as the Turku Pharmacy Museum and caf?. Room

© Thaliastock / Mary Evans

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Finland. Turku. Pharmacy Museum and the Qwensel house

Finland. Turku. Pharmacy Museum and the Qwensel house, built in the 1700s in an area reserved for the nobility. A pharmacy from the 19th century has been furnished in the shop wing of the building

© Thaliastock / Mary Evans

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