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Deep in the El Castillo cave in northern Spain, up a side passage off the main pathway, there is a small painted panel most visitors would walk straight past. Created some 17,000 to 15,000 years ago, it shows five red signs, each shaped a little like a bell.

Arts + Culture – The Conversatio reports that deep in the El Castillo cave in northern Spain, up a side passage off the main pathway, there is a small painted panel most visitors would walk straight past.

The report adds: Created some 17,000 to 15,000 years ago, it shows five red signs, each shaped a little like a bell.

A natural stone ledge runs beneath them like the lip of an altar.

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