An 18-year-student, with his dog stumbled upon a hole in 1940. It turned out to be an ancient trove of never-before-seen ...

Marcel Ravidat, an 18-year-old student, was exploring the woods in Montignac in Dordogne, southern France, when his dog named ...

PARIS — For many, the Lascaux caves are the honey pot for what became artistic in the Western tradition. In La Peinture Prehistorique Lascaux Ou La Naissance de L’Art, Georges Bataille put forth the ...

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 astonishing ...

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 ...

For more than 17,000 years, the bestiary of the Lascaux cave in southwestern France survived the ravages of history, unseen and undiscovered. Entering it now is like walking into a time capsule, where ...