THE discovery during the War of prehistoric paintings in the Lascaux Caves near Montignac in south-western France is of the highest interest. A large pine tree had blown down, and some French boys ...

unnamed artists covered the extensive Lascaux cave system in France’s Dordogne region with hundreds of paintings of animals and abstract shapes. The astonishing paintings were discovered by ...

aims to recreate the experience of the Lascaux Caves, where prehistoric paintings were discovered in 1940. The caves in France's Dordogne region remained opened to visitors until 1948 when the ...

The World Heritage site of Chauvet Cave ... paintings. When the cave was discovered in 1994, many scholars initially assumed that they must have been made around the same time as those at Lascaux ...

No cave paintings have been found in Britain, but Stone Age Britons probably painted scenes like the ones found at Lascaux in France. The Lascaux cave paintings were created around 14,000 years ago.

Because the paintings are often found deep inside caves in spots ... The true significance of these magnificent cave paintings at Lascaux and Chauvet in France and at Altamira in Spain remains ...