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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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The regal black bull painted by a Stone Age artist on a cave wall in southwestern France 17,000 years ago has survived millennia of war and pestilence just a few yards above its subterranean gallery.

Ravidat was on a break from school and exploring the woods of Montignac in Dordogne, in the south of France, when he noticed Robot sniffing around a small hole created by a tree that had been uprooted ...

To reach the only place in the world where cave paintings of prehistoric marine life have been found, archaeologists have to dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean off southern France. Then they have ...

SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE – I long ago lost my sense of direction during what I’ve dubbed The Tour de la Ferme, aka The Farm Tour. The car’s talkative GPS is programmed to tell us the winding way to Lascaux ...