The 20,000-year-old Lascaux cave paintings of southwestern France were open to public tours for 15 years last century.

Then you go to Lascaux. When the Stone Age cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux were stumbled upon in modern times, archaeologists and anthropologists regarded them as certainly frauds.

From Alex Bowman, Glasgow, UK “Messages from the Stone Age”, about hand stencils found in caves and early human culture, brings to mind 16,500-year-old cave paintings in Lascaux, France.

The Lascaux cave complex contains more than 600 paintings and around 1500 engravings of animals, abstract symbols, and a single human-like figure. (Humans are rarely depicted in any of the ...

Humans Cave paintings of mutilated hands could be a Stone Age sign language Palaeolithic hand stencils with missing fingers could indicate ritual mutilation or frostbite – but new research ...

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 ...

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 army of artisans have laid down their paintbrushes, chisels and pigments after three years of painstaking work to create a true-to-life replica of renowned Stone Age cave paintings long hidden ...

Ancient Worlds Ice Age cave paintings decoded by amateur researcher Patterns of lines and dots associated with specific animal species in cave art may point to an early writing system.

Below are 12 things you should know about the cave paintings at Lascaux. Four schoolboys stumbled onto the Lascaux cave system while chasing their dog. Dordogne is rife with decorated caves.