A 50,000 year-old cave painting found in Indonesia tells us about the evolution of humans and the importance of visual ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, ...

The true significance of these magnificent cave paintings at Lascaux and Chauvet in France and at Altamira in Spain remains elusive. But scientists conclude that this art, some of it brilliant ...

In 1963, the French government closed the Lascaux cave, restricting access to some ... The Snohetta-designed complex features some 600 prehistoric paintings and 1,000 engravings, all painstakingly ...

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 ...

These people came from the same stock as those who created the famous cave paintings at Lascaux, France and elsewhere in Europe. Archaeologists made the discovery in the Maszycka Cave in southern ...

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 ...

Throughout our history, humans have made extensive use of them as spaces to create art, inter the dead and ... Denisovans and ...

Casson Mann designed the interior of this new cave art museum in France ... aims to recreate the experience of the Lascaux Caves, where prehistoric paintings were discovered in 1940.

Lascaux Cave in France is one of many with Stone Age ... lines and pentagonal shapes. One of the paintings may show a human figure with a bird-like head, possibly someone wearing a mask.