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c. 31,000 years ago
 
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Rhinoceroses, lions and mammoth feature on the walls of the Chauvet cave, in southern France     
Rhinoceros in the Chauvet cave

c. 30,000 years ago
 
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Painted and engraved images, on the rock face in a cave near Twyfelfontein in Namibia, date from this period      
c. 3100 BC
 
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The Egyptians paint murals on the walls of tombs, designed to help the occupants in the next world     
Fragment of painted wall relief, c.1850 BC
British Museum

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c. 1600 BC
 
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A bull-fighting fresco in the palace of Knossos is linked with the island's cult of the bull      
c. 1550 BC
 
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Egyptian tombs include paintings of a kind to help the occupants in the next world, whether in the Book of the Dead or on the walls      
Harvesting in a Book of the Dead c.1325 BC
British Museum

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c. 1525 BC
 
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The eruption of a volcano, on the island of Thera, entombs and preserves houses with frescoes in the Minoan city of Akrotiri