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Excavation ongoing world heritage places in France · Mysteria

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Excavation ongoing world heritage places in France

3 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.

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Dolmens

🇫🇷 France

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🇫🇷 France · Rock art

Font-de-Gaume Cave

Magdalenian ~17–14 ka BP · Magdalenian

Vézère polychrome gallery with 230 Magdalenian figures, last original painted cave open to public.

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🇫🇷 France · Rock art

Rouffignac Cave

Magdalenian ~13 ka BP · Magdalenian

8 km mammoth gallery with 158 manganese woolly-mammoth figures and children's finger fluting.

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🇫🇷 France · Megalith

Carnac Stones

Middle to Late Neolithic · Armorican Neolithic

Over 3,000 standing stones in three major alignments (Ménec, Kermario, Kerlescan) extending 4 km, plus dolmens and tumuli. Earliest European megalithic region (Antiquity 2025).