Tourism, climate change, redevelopment and nature threaten the existence of some of the world’s most amazing sites, but – ...

False prophets, in sheep's clothing but inwardly ravenous wolves ...

The Lascaux cave complex contains more than 600 paintings and around 1500 engravings of animals, abstract symbols, and a single human-like figure. (Humans are rarely depicted in any of the ...

The Lascaux cave paintings were accidentally discovered by four teenagers on this day in 1940. Marcel Ravidat, Jacques Marsal, Georges Agnel, and Simon Coencas stumbled upon the entrance to the ...

Then you go to Lascaux. When the Stone Age cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux were stumbled upon in modern times, archaeologists and anthropologists regarded them as certainly frauds.

The oldest reliably dated rock art in Australia is a large kangaroo painting in a shelter in the Kimberley region, dated to around 17,300 years old. This is roughly the same age as the Lascaux ...

A 51,000-year-old painting in the Sulawesi cave "art gallery" is the oldest evidence of narrative rock art ever discovered.

51,000-year-old cave painting may be earliest scene depicted through art The artwork, an example of early storytelling, shows three humanoid figures and a pig. Sulawesi residents of that era were ...

One of the biggest and best-known cave painting is an 18-foot-wide image of an extinct wild ox, or aurochs, that seems to gallop across the Great Hall at Lascaux—and dates to around 18,000 years ...

Cave painting from Lascaux, France, showing a bull marked with a sequence of lines JoJan/Wikipedia/CC-BY-4. 0 ...

The Lascaux cave paintings are some of the most recognizable cave art. They were found in the Dordogne region of France in 1940 by four teenagers. The art, which is thought to have been made around 20 ...