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 ...

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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 ...

F or 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 ...

From the moment humans began painting, they've been wrestling with the body. The bird-like figure discovered in the caves of Lascaux, France, looks nothing like the broad-backed male drying his face ...

Lascaux cave in southwestern France contains about 680 painted frescoes and 1,500 engravings that were created around 21,000 years ago, according to the French Ministry of Culture.

While the cave paintings are often thought to be around 15,000 to 17,000-years-old, hailing from the Upper Paleolithic period, experts have increasingly believed that Lascaux is very poorly dated.

Archaeology & History An Amateur Archaeologist Has Deciphered a Cave Art Code Used by Ice Age Hunter-Gatherers. The man noticed the prehistoric "proto-writing" system tracking animals' life cycles ...

Kevin O’Leary’s “Lascaux,” now having its world premiere run in a production by the Pie Man Theatre, takes the actual discovery of prehistoric cave paintings in France in 1940 as a source ...