as well as an aesthetic point of view because of its cave paintings, especially those of the Lascaux Cave, whose discovery in 1940 was of great importance for the history of prehistoric art. The ...

Discovered in 2000 by an amateur cave explorer ... Authorities are anxious to avoid a repeat of the damage done to France's ...

Lascaux cave in southwestern France contains ... bison in the caves about 400,000 years ago. Rock art, both painted and ...

No cave paintings have been found in Britain, but Stone Age Britons probably painted scenes like the ones found at Lascaux in France. The Lascaux cave paintings were created around 14,000 years ago.