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 ...

aims to recreate the experience of the Lascaux Caves, where prehistoric paintings were discovered in 1940. The caves in France's Dordogne region remained opened to visitors until 1948 when the ...

Casson Mann created an entire visitor experience for a sequence of interpretative galleries and a handheld multimedia guide for a new visitor attraction in France, the Lascaux International Centre ...

Old Cave Paintings' Mysterious Dots and Marks Indicate Ice Age Hunter-Gatherers Used a Lunar Calendar Cave drawings have ...

In 1963, the French government closed the Lascaux cave, restricting access to some of the world’s best examples of prehistoric art over concerns that carbon dioxide from visitors’ breathing ...

The true significance of these magnificent cave paintings at Lascaux and Chauvet in France and at Altamira in Spain remains elusive. But scientists conclude that this art, some of it brilliant ...

As Tate Modern opens a new show on the advent of digital art, one of its early pioneers discusses the reasons it’s been overlooked historically and why she’s not interested in the new era of AI art ...

A cave in Israel may have once been a ritualistic gathering site for early humans some 35,000 years ago, likely making it the earliest ritual site in Southwest Asia. The multifaceted research team ...

who left a legacy of spectacular art in the caves of Lascaux [in France] and Altamira [in Spain], also left a record of early timekeeping that would eventually become commonplace among our species." ...

Markings found on paintings dating back at least 20,000 ... within this image of a bull on the wall of the famous Lascaux cave in France about 21,500 years ago Professors Paul Pettitt and Robert ...