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 ...

(Alamy) The story of the discovery of the prehistoric cave paintings in Lascaux, in the Dordogne region of southwest France, is one worthy of a Boys’ Own adventure ripping yarn. On 12 September ...

World-renowned French paleoanthropologist Yves Coppens delivers a lecture on the famous cave paintings of Lascaux. The cave system contains nearly 2,000 colorful figures of animals and people in ...

Lascaux cave paintings are perhaps the greatest masterpiece of parietal art ever found. They have fascinated generations of people and puzzled prehistorians since their discovery in September 1940 ...

Sponsor Message There are many mysteries surrounding the Lascaux cave paintings. For example, experts don't really know how long it took to complete them. "There was a code and a certain style ...

France’s historic Lascaux cave has long been closed to the public ... “This is more than a copy, it’s a work of art!” said French President François Hollande while touring the new ...

News of the astonishing discovery spread quickly, and the cave paintings of Lascaux saw more than 1 million visitors between 1948 and 1963 before the French government closed the cave to the ...