On the walls were innumerable paintings, many of them of large size, which were soon recognized as being palæolithic. Lascaux, though some distance from the well-known cave sites near LesEyzies ...

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 ...

In 1963, the French government closed the Lascaux cave, restricting access to some ... The Snohetta-designed complex features some 600 prehistoric paintings and 1,000 engravings, all painstakingly ...

Some of the paintings were found to be over 45,500 years old, predating the famous Lascaux and Chauvet cave paintings by several thousand years. Now, a new study in the journal Nature suggests ...

From stunning artwork to evidence of elaborate prehistoric butchering, Live Science takes a look at seven amazing caves that ...

The World Heritage site of Chauvet Cave ... paintings. When the cave was discovered in 1994, many scholars initially assumed that they must have been made around the same time as those at Lascaux ...

The Murujuga petroglyphs are a spectacular collection of stone engravings. At over forty thousand years old, they are ...

Casson Mann designed the interior of this new cave art museum in France ... aims to recreate the experience of the Lascaux Caves, where prehistoric paintings were discovered in 1940.

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 ...

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.

Distinctive, elegant and authoritative, the galleries use interactive technology to interpret the palaeolithic painted cave of Lascaux, the “Sistine Chapel” of rock art. At the heart of the ...