The Lascaux caves — which are also located in Dordogne, though their artworks are estimated to have been created thousands of years after the Cussac carvings — were closed to the public in 1963 to ...

The 1.6-kilometre cave contains more than 1,000 carved figures, both animals and stylised feminine forms, drawn on the soft rock during the so-called Gravettian period – between 26,000 and ...

This photograph taken in Le Buisson-de-Cadouin, south-western France, on February 20, 2025, shows vertical bear claw marks and man-made engravings dating back to about 30,000 years some 150m ...

These all stood as living proof of internet culture before internet culture was real. Where the Lascaux Cave might have been discovered 25,000 years too late — a reminder of humanity’s early beginning ...

Breuil and an unidentified man examine Lascaux’s art soon after the cave was discovered. | Wellcome Collection // CC BY 4.0 In September 1940, four teenage boys were searching for their lost dog ...

The discovery of the Lascaux Cave paintings in France during World War II changed how we view art and its importance to us as human beings. The loose line drawings from the Paleolithic Era are in ...

For more than 16,000 years, the prehistoric paintings in France’s famed Lascaux Cave survived in splendid isolation. Then, after the discovery of the cave by four French schoolboys in 1940, man ...

The first expert to examine the paintings at Lascaux was the archaeologist and priest Henri Breuil. In 1940, he christened the site “the Sistine Chapel of prehistory”. It was a fitting analogy.

“I went to Lascaux, to the original cave. The Australian Government sent me and another Aboriginal lady there to study it, compare it with the Australian Aboriginal art.

A 51,000-year-old painting in the Sulawesi cave "art gallery" is the oldest evidence of narrative rock art ever discovered.

Its 40 essays constitute an attempt to draft something beguilingly impossible: an atlas of all artistic expression, from the Lascaux cave paintings of Paleolithic man to Cézanne’s still lifes ...

When cave art near the firm’s operations was found to be more than 43,000 years old 3 in 2019, Semen Tonasa became the unlikely custodian of one of humanity’s most prized cultural treasures.