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 ...

It is particularly interesting from an ethnological and anthropological, as well as an aesthetic point of view because of its cave paintings, especially those of the Lascaux Cave, whose discovery in ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, ...

Authorities are anxious to avoid a repeat of the damage done to France's famed Lascaux caves ... French prehistoric paintings ‘oldest and most elaborate’ The Cussac cave is accessed by a ...

The Lascaux caves -- which are also located in Dordogne, though their artworks are estimated to be thousands of years younger than the Cussac carvings -- were closed to the public in 1963 to save ...

Authorities are anxious to avoid a repeat of the damage done to France's famed Lascaux caves by microorganisms brought in by visitors. The Lascaux caves—which are also located in Dordogne ...

Authorities are anxious to avoid a repeat of the damage done to France’s famed Lascaux caves by microorganisms brought in by visitors. The Lascaux caves, which are also located in Dordogne ...