The Lascaux IV Caves Museum, designed by Norwegian architects Snøhetta, aims to recreate the experience of the Lascaux Caves, where prehistoric paintings were discovered in 1940. The caves in ...

Lascaux cave in southwestern France contains about 680 painted frescoes and 1,500 engravings that were created around 21,000 years ago, according to the French Ministry of Culture.

The Lascaux cave paintings are some of the most famous examples of Paleolithic artwork. Created by the Magdalenians, a late Ice Age society that lived in central Europe between 20,000 and 14,500 ...

Evidence from an 18,000-year-old cave in modern day Poland has revealed that Ice Age people may have practiced violent ...

It was dangerous work, judging by a scene painted in the renowned Lascaux cave of a man being killed by a bison. Other tableaux are hard to interpret without knowing what cultural beliefs and ...

It is particularly interesting from an ethnological and anthropological, as well as an aesthetic point of view because of its cave paintings, especially those of the Lascaux Cave, whose discovery in ...

Lascaux IV, a hybrid piece of concrete, steel and resin 262 yards long, will be an exact reproduction of the world famous Lascaux cave. Nearly 150 people will take part in this venture. Artists ...

Some of the world's oldest cave paintings have revealed how ancient people had relatively advanced knowledge of astronomy. Animal symbols represent star constellations in the night sky ...

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 ...

Lascaux Cave in France is one of many with Stone Age ... according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The cave's interior includes images of horses, bears, lions, rhinoceroses ...