The Lascaux cave paintings were accidentally discovered by four teenagers on this day in 1940. Marcel Ravidat, Jacques Marsal, Georges Agnel, and Simon Coencas stumbled upon the entrance to the ...

The paintings portray what appear to be female archers and deer and goats, some of which are wounded by arrows, according to 20 Minutos, a Spanish newspaper. The artwork is believed to be around ...

“Secondly, the discovery of new cave paintings in this type of cave indicates that prehistoric man developed sophisticated means of climbing, perhaps by means of ropes or wooden scaffolding ...

A look at consequences of rising sea levels as 56% of Americans call climate change "urgent" To reach the only place in the world where cave paintings of prehistoric marine life have been found ...

Unsurprisingly, the Cave of Altamira has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985. But most importantly for public appreciation, there's an on-site recreation of the cave available to visit.

Archaeologists have discovered a "major" Paleolithic cave art site in Spain that contains more than a hundred individual designs. The collection of prehistoric paintings and engravings is thought ...

The 895 paintings were found by Argentine and Chilean archaeologists in the Huenul 1 cave, a 630 square meter (6,781 square foot) rock shelter located in the province of Neuquen, some 1,100 ...

The engravings analyzed for this latest paper were discovered in a cave called La Roche-Cotard on the banks of the river Loire in France, first discovered in 1912 after the entrance was exposed ...

US News Moronic tourist under investigation after dumping water on ‘historically significant’ ancient cave paintings for social media By Natalie O'Neill Published Aug. 9, 2024, 6:13 p.m. ET ...

In 1977, officials closed the cave to visitors to protect the paintings from degradation. In 1982 the cave reopened, this time with a limited visitation schedule of 8,500 people per year.

Dinosaur World is open daily from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Among Kentucky's many theme parks, there is one that pulls guests back in time millions of years to experience a world where ancient creatures ...

Roadside attractions: See life-size dinosaur models in Cave City, Kentucky June 1, 2022 at 1:00 a.m. | Updated June 7, 2022 at 4:06 p.m. by Jo Kibble ...