Amid the Second World War, four young boys unearthed a Paleolithic masterpiece when they stumbled upon a cave in southwest ...

Explore stunning prehistoric caves in southern France, where cave tours with ancient artwork are a must-see experience for ...

Gary Mulcahey / NMNH Some 17,000 years ago, on a wall of Lascaux cave in southwestern France, an artist made a painting of a deer with fantastically elongated antlers. To modern eyes, it looks ...

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 ...

Authorities are anxious to avoid a repeat of the damage done to France’s 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, though ...

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 ...

But authorities say there are no plans to open the cave to the public. The state does not want to repeat the mistakes of the Lascaux cave in the same region, which was contaminated by micro ...

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 ...