Henri Lhote | |
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![]() Lhote in Mauritania in 1967 | |
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Died | 26 March 1991 Saint-Aignan, Loir-et-Cher, France | (aged 88)
Henri Lhote (16 March 1903 – 26 March 1991) was a French explorer, ethnographer, and discoverer of prehistoric cave art. He is credited with the discovery of an assembly of 800 or more works of primitive art in a remote region of Algeria on the edge of the Sahara desert.[1][2]
Lhote came to believe the paintings testified to ancient contact with extraterrestrial beings and is considered one of the early proponents of paleocontact.[3][4][5][6]