Werner Herzog’s new documentary Cave ... quad poster. Having gained access to the newly discovered Chauvet caves in the South of France, Herzog’s new film uncovers the beautiful cave paintings ...

Cave paintings can tell us a lot about the people who painted them. For starters, they indicate that a particular culture made time for art. They also tell us that these people valued art as well as ...

Archaeologists have discovered the earliest dated cave paintings in South America in Argentine Patagonia, dating back 8,200 years. The 895 paintings were found by Argentine and Chilean ...

S1: Rock paintings by ancient indigenous people can be seen all over the southwest in the rugged canyons of Baja , California. There are cave paintings that are much older than we thought.

Between 17,000 and 12,000 years ago, unnamed artists covered the extensive Lascaux cave system in France’s Dordogne region with hundreds of paintings of animals and abstract shapes. The ...

Cosquer cave is a beautiful display of ancient cave art, remaining one of the only known caves to depict over 150 animals across its walls in ornate paintings and engravings. But Cosquer cave is ...

No one knows why our prehistoric ancestors painted cave art. The paintings are mostly located in deep caves and areas that are difficult to access, showing no signs of living spaces. That’s one reason ...

For more than 16,000 years, the prehistoric paintings in France’s famed Lascaux Cave survived in splendid isolation. Then, after the discovery of the cave by four French schoolboys in 1940 ...