THE discovery during the War of prehistoric paintings in the Lascaux Caves near Montignac in south-western France is of the highest interest. A large pine tree had blown down, and some French boys ...

An exact replica of a cave painting in Lascaux showing a bison and aurochs facing each other, along with small horses and deer. | Patrick Aventurier/GettyImages Between 17,000 and 12,000 years ago ...

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 ...

Experts have studied the paintings and engravings that adorn Lascaux Cave, seeking to understand the artist’s intentions and to dig deeper into the lives of our ancestors. In the autumn of 1940 ...

He later became a specialist in prehistoric wall painting -- and joined the campaign to save the precious site. In an extremely rare visit to the cave last week, Clottes explained Lascaux had been ...

The London design studio designed a sequence of interpretative galleries and a handheld multimedia guide for the Lascaux International Centre for Cave Art. The Lascaux IV Caves Museum, designed by ...

The art predates the arrival of modern humans to Europe by 20,000 years and, if accurate, is older than any cave art ever known. 3. Lascaux Cave Art Ancient cave art depicting a bull in France.

Could they still be discovered, deciphered even? I’d been familiar with the cave paintings at Lascaux since I was a child, so I took another look at these. Alongside the famous paintings I ...

In 1963, the French government closed the Lascaux cave, restricting access to some of the world’s best examples of prehistoric art over concerns that carbon dioxide from visitors’ breathing ...

“Master Sapiens” is a dive into the Lascaux Cave, considered by experts to be the first art school in history. The series is available as one 52′ documentary or two 45′ episodes, produced ...