Kapova Cave
Kapova cave also known as Shul'gan-Tash is a limestone karst cave in the Burzyansky District of Bashkortostan, Russia in the southern Ural Mountains. The cave is best known for the 16,000 years old Upper Paleolithic rock paintings and drawings. The most ancient drawings are in the upper tier. They were painted in the Late Paleolithic era., when Cro-Magnons lived on the planet. On the lower tier of the Kapova cave are later images of the end of the ice age. Their size varies between 44 and 112 centimeters. Uranium-thorium dating showed that the oldest drawings in the Kapova cave were made 36,400 years ago.
