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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An international research team has gained new insights into the burial rituals of Late Ice Age societies in Central Europe. Signs of human remains from the Maszycka Cave in southern Poland being ...

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 significantly older than the ...

Australian govts state and federal have transformed one of the most important cultural heritage sites in the world into an ...

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 ...