The Preakness Stakes is the “Middle Jewel” of the Triple Crown and will feature nine horses looking to make history in the 150th running of the Preakness. Star ...

Rare Glimpse Inside French Cave Reveals Stunning Prehistoric Art Discovered in 2000 by an amateur cave explorer, the Grotte de Cussac in the Dordogne department holds ancient human remains.

Deep inside a labyrinth cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, mammoths and rhinoceroses into the walls, a fabulous prehistoric menagerie that ...

The Lascaux caves -- which are also located in Dordogne, though their artworks are estimated to be thousands of years younger than the Cussac carvings -- were closed to the public in 1963 to save ...

Rarely seen cave art holds prehistoric secrets in France Discovered in 2000 by an amateur cave explorer, the Grotte de Cussac in the Dordogne department holds ancient human remains, traces of long ...

World 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.

For millennia, humans have observed and have been inspired by the ways that animals move. Some researchers theorize that paintings in famous caves like Chauvet and Lascaux, made more than 30,000 years ...

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.

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 ...