They call her the Old Lady, for she is some 18,000 years old and frail, which is why she is protected by steel doors, security cameras and the gentlest nurturing the 21st century has to offer. Tucked ...

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 ...

In September of 1940, a teenage apprentice mechanic named Marcel Ravidat was out walking in the Dordogne region of France. He discovered a hole in the earth. Four days later he and three teenage ...

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 ...

The discovery of what would soon become known as the world's premier example of prehistoric art occurred by accident. In 1940, four teenage friends were exploring the woods in southern France when ...

Lascaux, a cave in southwestern France that holds a dazzling gallery of ice-age paintings, is under siege again. Recent blunders in conservation efforts at the cave have altered its microclimate, and ...

It was discovered by a dog called Robot, and has survived 17,000 years of climate change and human history. But the world's most famous cave art at Lascaux, France-- dubbed prehistory's "Sistine ...

You might have heard that Scenes from the Stone Age: The Cave Paintings of Lascaux opened at The Field Museum this week. You might have thought the curators hauled a bunch of caves to Chicago from ...

World-renowned French paleoanthropologist Yves Coppens delivers a lecture on the famous cave paintings of Lascaux. The cave system contains nearly 2,000 colorful figures of animals and people in ...

Today is the anniversary of one of the greatest finds in ancient archeology. 73 years ago, the Lascaux cave paintings discovered by four teenagers who stumbled upon the ancient artwork after following ...