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 ...

With imagination and technology, Snohetta created a whole new world worth every hour of your time and then some at the Snohetta Lascaux IV Museum.

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 French government is taking emergency action to rescue the celebrated cave paintings of the Lascaux caverns from a fungus that threatens to destroy the ancient works of art.

Lascaux, though some distance from the well-known cave sites near LesEyzies, is after all not so far away from them, and local folk knew by hearsay all about such places as Font de Gaume ...

The car’s GPS is programmed to tell us the winding way to Lascaux, the famous cave where Cro-Magnons painted pictures of bison on the walls.

French distribution company Newen Connect is bringing their latest non-fiction series to the London TV Screenings. “Master Sapiens” is a dive into the Lascaux Cave, considered by experts to be ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Sept. 12, 1940, the Lascaux cave paintings, estimated to be 17,000 years old, were discovered in southwestern France.

IF YOU have ever marvelled at the accomplishment of Stone Age cave artists, you are in good company. In 1940, on visiting Lascaux cave in southern France, Pablo Picasso supposedly said: “Since ...