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People have been paintingpictures for at least 30,000 years. The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunt edanimals. They used to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill. Pictures of thiskind have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain. No one knows why they werepainted there. Perhaps the painters t hought that their pictures would help them to catch theseanimals. Or perhaps human beings have always wanted to tell stories in pictures. About 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures askind of writing. T hey