The Chauvet-Pont D'Arc cave is one of the most famous underground caverns in the world, housing one of the oldest and best-preserved collections of prehistoric cave paintings ever discovered. Now, ...

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 ...

By wile and charm — and through contacts with the French Ministry of Culture — Werner Herzog, the prolific documentarian and fiction director (Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call — New Orleans) talked his ...

Object Details Author Chauvet, Jean-Marie Brunel Deschamps, Eliette Hillaire, Christian Date 1996 Type Books Physical description 135 p. : col. ill., map ; 32 x 27 cm Place France Vallon-Pont-d'Arc ...

The Chauvet Cave, which lies by the entrance to the Gorges of the Ardèche, is home to the world's oldest cave paintings, dating back 36,000 years. Their state of preservation and aesthetic qualities ...

In the absence of any documentation on prehistory, speleological explorations are the only way to reconstruct the history of ancient times. Tools, bones, everyday objects, carvings, sculptures and ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Lascaux Cave in France is one of many with Stone Age rock art. | Credit: Pictures from History ...

Jean-Marie Chauvet noticed air whistling out from a crack on a plateau in southern France, so he and fellow cave enthusiasts went to investigate. What they found that Sunday in 1994 still fills ...

Like many an adventurer-reporter before him — like H.M. Stanley searching Africa for Dr. Livingstone, or today’s brave, reckless photojournalists risking their lives in war zones — Werner Herzog loves ...

The eye-popping portraits of Kehinde Wiley, Marcel Duchamp’s medium-defying sculpture, the heady drip paintings of Jackson Pollock — these are all defining pieces of modern art, masterpieces of our ...

Cavemen may have had to jostle with bears to settle into caves up to 32,000 years ago, as research shows cave bears lived in the same spaces coveted by prehistoric humans. The new study on cave bears, ...