Hundreds of carvings of prehistoric animals, and women, line a cave in southwest France. For 4 weeks a year researchers are ...

Rarely seen cave art holds prehistoric secrets in France Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, mammoths and rhinoceros ...

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 ...

Discovered 25 years ago in Dordogne, southwestern France, the Cussac cave is an immaculately preserved jewel of prehistory – and so strictly protected by the French ministry of culture that the ...

It was dangerous work, judging by a scene painted in the renowned Lascaux cave of a man being killed by a bison. Other tableaux are hard to interpret without knowing what cultural beliefs and ...

Lascaux Cave in France is one of many with Stone Age rock art. | Credit: Pictures from History via Getty Images Caves are natural shelters. Throughout our history, humans have made extensive use ...

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 ...

After unlocking the metal grate that blocks the entrance, the group put on white ... a repeat of the damage done to France's famed Lascaux caves by microorganisms brought in by visitors.

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 ...