On
September 12, 1940, four boys and their dog, Robot, walk along a ridge
covered with pine, oak and blackberry brambles. Robot begins digging near a
hole beside a downed tree. The youngsters begin to dig, widening the hole,
removing rocks—until they’ve made an opening large enough for each to slip
through, one by one. They have discovered not merely another place,
but another time. In the cool dark beneath the sunlit world above, the boys
found themselves in “a Versailles of prehistory”—a vast series of caves, today
collectively known as Lascaux,
covered with wall paintings that, by some estimates, are close to
20,000 years old. In 1947, LIFE magazine’s Ralph Morse went to Lascaux,
becoming the first professional photographer to document the breathtaking
scenes. Now in his late-90s, Morse shared his memories of that time and
place with LIFE.com, recalling what it was like to encounter the strikingly
lifelike, gorgeous handiwork of a long-vanished people: the Cro-Magnon. See
pictures and read article at -- http://life.time.com/culture/lascaux-early-color-photos-of-the-famous-cave-paintings-france-1947/#1
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to what he
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