The oldest known cave with representational images is the Chauvet Cave in France, which dates back to around 30,000-32,000 years ago.
The oldest known cave is the Cave of El Castillo in Spain, which has been dated to be around 40,800 years old based on cave paintings found inside.
30,000 b.C.e
Namibia, Africa. For those that are unsure of what the Apollo 11 Cave is, it is the spot where Africa's oldest known paintings were excavated. They were found in 1969, the year the Apollo 11 crew landed on the moon for the first time, hence the name.
The Mammoth Cave
The oldest known cave paintings are found in the caves of Maltravieso in Spain, dating back around 64,000 years. Other notable examples include the Chauvet Cave in France, with paintings dating back around 36,000 years, and El Castillo cave in Spain, where art dates back over 40,000 years.
chauvet cave paintings
The oldest known cave paintings by the Cro-Magnon are 32,000 years old.
The Chauvet Cave is named after the person who discovered it, Jean-Marie Chauvet, in 1994. The cave contains some of the oldest known cave paintings, dating back over 30,000 years, and is considered a significant archaeological find.
Chauvet cave paintings.
Silicosis.
There's not really an exact answer, because many books were published at the same time, and no one really knows. Do you mean things all the way back to shakespere's time or before or after that? If you mean the OLDEST storybook it might as well be when the cave men were alive.