Name: Ice Age horse engraving found in Moravian Karst cave challenges view of early European art
Uploaded: 2026-01-23T11:28:01+00:00
Channel: Martin Hladík
Description: Czech scientists have announced an extraordinary discovery in the Moravian Karst in South Moravia. Inside one of the region’s caves, they found a rare engraving of a horse — an image created around 15,000 years ago, at the very end of the last Ice Age, when people still lived in and around caves. An international

Foto: Langley, M.C., Škrdla, P., Kmošek, M. et al. Engraved Limestone Block from Švédův stůl Cave, Czech Republic, 2026 / ARÚ AV ČR /

Czech scientists have announced an extraordinary discovery in the Moravian Karst in South Moravia. Inside one of the region’s caves, they found a rare engraving of a horse — an image created around 15,000 years ago, at the very end of the last Ice Age, when people still lived in and around caves.

An international team of archaeologists, led by researchers from the Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, uncovered the engraving in the Švédův stůl Cave.

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Author: Ruth Fraňková, Zdeňka Kuchyňová