Between 17,000 and 12,000 years ago, unnamed artists covered the extensive Lascaux cave system in France’s Dordogne region with hundreds of paintings of animals and abstract shapes. The ...

The discovery of what would soon become known as the world's premier example of prehistoric art occurred by accident. In 1940, four teenage friends were exploring the woods in southern France when ...

September 12, 1940. A warm afternoon in Dordogne, in southwestern France. Four boys and their dog, Robot, ... Photographer Bernard Sury focuses a camera on cave paintings at Lascaux, 1947.

France's next big tourist destination is likely the new full-scale replica of Lascaux Cave, famed for its prehistoric cave paintings. The original caves have been closed to the public since 1963 ...

T he story of the discovery of the prehistoric cave paintings in Lascaux, in the Dordogne region of southwest France, is one worthy of a Boys’ Own adventure ripping yarn. On 12 September 1940 ...

A new replica of the stunning Lascaux cave paintings was unveiled Saturday in the Dordogne region of southwest France, more than seven decades after the prehistoric art was first discovered.

These four men found the Lascaux cave paintings in 1940. They returned to the cave entrance for this 1986 photo. From left to right, they are Georges Agniel, Simon Coencas, Jacques Marsal and ...

France's Lascaux Cave was one of the most important anthropological and historical finds of the 20th century.The cave's interior walls were covered in paintings that depicted animals, people, and ...

B etween 17,000 and 12,000 years ago, unnamed artists covered the extensive Lascaux cave system in France’s Dordogne region ...