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

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 ...

To a remarkable degree, the cave paintings executed over 20 millenniums until about 11,000 years ago are concentrated in southern France and northeastern Spain. Some cultural impulse drove the early ...

In 1940 in Dordogne, France, four boys stumbled upon a long forgotten cave, a jewel of prehistoric art and a major archeological revelation. The cave was named Lascaux. Now a World Heritage site, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The French art collective Obvious is back with another project featuring artworks generated through artificial intelligence, this time training algorithms to blend prehistoric cave art with ...

GWANGMYEONG, Gyeonggi Province (Yonhap) -- The fate of Gwangmyeong Cave has fluctuated with the various happenings in the wild Korean modern history. During the Japanese colonial period (1910-1945), ...

Eighteen thousand years ago, our Ice Age ancestors practiced both cave art and cannibalism. Human remains found deep in a Polish cave bear unmistakable signs of butchery. These people came from the ...

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.