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 during the War of prehistoric paintings in the Lascaux Caves near Montignac in south-western France is of the highest ... to a hitherto unknown cave. On the walls were innumerable ...

Casson Mann designed the interior of this new cave art museum ... the experience of the Lascaux Caves, where prehistoric paintings were discovered in 1940. The caves in France's Dordogne region ...

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

Dubbed the ‘Sistine Chapel of Prehistory’, no other cave paintings can compete with those of Lascaux’s in terms ... monuments of any town in France and offers the perfect opportunity to ...

The World Heritage site of Chauvet Cave in southern France is famous—and a source of both wonder and controversy—for having the world’s oldest cave paintings. When the cave was discovered in ...

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.

The Murujuga petroglyphs are a spectacular collection of stone engravings. At over forty thousand years old, they are ...

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 ...

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 ...