At first, the caves were open to the public, but were closed in 1963 when it was discovered that humans exhaling carbon dioxide were damaging the artwork. Lascaux II, a facsimile of the original ...

A new study of prehistoric horse DNA suggests that spotted horses roamed ancient Europe, ... as well as the roughly 15,000-year-old caves of Lascaux in France and Altamira in Spain.

The discovery of what would soon become known as the world's premier example of prehistoric art occurred by accident. In 1940, four teenage friends were exploring the woods in southern France when ...

The Lascaux cave drawings in France have survived for 17,000 years but are now endangered by encroaching black mold spots, the latest in a series of threats unwittingly brought in over the years ...

Prehistoric cave art from Lascaux, France, shows the head of a horse. ((Hulton Archive/Getty Images) ) The caves, discovered in 1940 by teenagers walking a dog, contain images of bulls, deer and ...

If you enter Lascaux into the GPS, the computer will plot a complicated route to a blip of a farming community elbow-deep in the hilly boonies. It’s miles from the cave – as well as anything else.

The Lascaux cave paintings were accidentally discovered by four teenagers on this day in 1940. Marcel Ravidat, Jacques Marsal, Georges Agnel, and Simon Coencas stumbled upon the entrance to the ...

The discovery of the Lascaux Cave paintings in France during World War II changed how we view art and its importance to us as human beings. The loose line drawings from the Paleolithic Era are in ...

Lascaux II – as the re-created Dordogne cave is known – was the first of its kind. But it started a trend – and one which made headlines earlier this year in another part of France. Early ...

MONTIGNAC, France -- The regal black bull painted by a Stone Age artist on a cave wall in southwestern France 17,000 years ago has survived millennia of war and pestilence just a few yards above ...