THE discovery during the War of prehistoric paintings in the Lascaux Caves near Montignac in south-western France is of the highest interest. A large pine tree had blown down, and some French boys ...

Manganese was plentiful and easy to extract around Lascaux, likely explaining why it was used to create the black pigment instead of charcoal, which is commonly seen in other cave paintings across ...

The London design studio designed a sequence of interpretative galleries and a handheld multimedia guide for the Lascaux International Centre for Cave Art ... The team used advanced 3D laser ...

From stunning artwork to evidence of elaborate prehistoric butchering, Live Science takes a look at seven amazing caves that ...

The World Heritage site of Chauvet Cave ... paintings. When the cave was discovered in 1994, many scholars initially assumed that they must have been made around the same time as those at Lascaux ...

Professor Philip Terry (University of Essex) will talk about his discovery and translation of Jean-Luc Champerret’s ‘decoding’ of the Lascaux cave paintings as poetry. Terry and Champerret make the ...

The true significance of these magnificent cave paintings at Lascaux and Chauvet in France and at Altamira in Spain remains elusive. But scientists conclude that this art, some of it brilliant ...

In 1963, the French government closed the Lascaux cave, restricting access to some of the world’s best examples of prehistoric art over concerns that carbon dioxide from visitors’ breathing ...

Distinctive, elegant and authoritative, the galleries use interactive technology to interpret the palaeolithic painted cave of Lascaux, the “Sistine Chapel” of rock art. At the heart of the ...