Imagine hundreds of limestone massifs… massifs pierced with caves and rock shelters, adorned with thousands of rock paintings and engravings… A godsend for any archaeologist worthy of the name! Of course, the site has to be found. Nothing could be simpler than that since your playground (if you accept it) will be of a reasonable size, comparable to Western Europe: the Democratic Republic of Congo. In order to help you a little, I advise you to navigate between the capital, Kinshasa, and the Atlantic coast. There, a charitable soul will take you to the Lovo massif. Now it’s up to you to discover the cave paintings; I’m not going to draw you a picture…
– © Geoffroy Heimlich
The exhibition “Lovo, in the footsteps of the Kingdom of Kongo” is presented to you at Les Eyzies Prehistory Interpretation Center until the end of the year.