A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Sept. 12, 1940, the Lascaux cave paintings, estimated to be 17,000 years old, were discovered in southwestern ...

The caves include as many as 600 wall and ceiling paintings, and historians say the art was drawn over many generations. The paintings represent primarily large and small animals and other flora and ...

In fact, at Lascaux the influx of visitors began to degrade the paintings, prompting the construction of an entirely new cave of precisely painted replicas for tourists.

One sun-bright morning in the last weeks of winter, I found myself in the passenger seat of an ancient Toyota Troopie, rattling down a dirt track o ...

Lauren Fuge visits the Flinders Ranges with the Adnyamathanha owner-operator of an Indigenous cultural tourism centre. She asks: how did his people change the land, and how has it changed them?

Having spent around a year to develop, an online digital project that exhibits legacies in the "Sutra Cave" of China's Mogao Caves, has recently launched its international version, allowing users ...

Ancient humans painted scenes in Indonesian caves more than 45,000 years ago, but their art is disappearing rapidly. Researchers are trying to discover what’s causing the damage and how to stop ...

This area in southwest France has multiple caves with well-preserved Ice Age art, including the famed Lascaux Cave. Two von Petzinger picks are near the village Les Eyzies-de-Tayac: Les ...

The Cave Art of Lascaux exhibition at Bristol Museum uses virtual reality to bring the 21,000-year-old Lascaux Cave in France to life. The cave in the Dordogne region of France, which has been ...