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 ...

I first came across the idea of Ice Age poetry in a book by Andrei Codrescu ... I’d been familiar with the cave paintings at Lascaux since I was a child, so I took another look at these.

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 ...

On the walls were innumerable paintings, many of them of large size, which were soon recognized as being palæolithic. Lascaux, though some distance from the well-known cave sites near LesEyzies ...

Patterns of lines and dots associated with specific animal species in cave art may point to an early writing system. The four dots painted across the back of this aurochs (wild ox) in the Lascaux ...

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 ...

3. Lascaux Cave Art Ancient cave art depicting a bull in France. (Credit: hipjang/Shutterstock) The Lascaux cave paintings are some of the most recognizable cave art. They were found in the Dordogne ...

These people came from the same stock as those who created the famous cave paintings at Lascaux, France and elsewhere in Europe. Archaeologists made the discovery in the Maszycka Cave in southern ...

This area in southwest France has multiple caves with well-preserved Ice Age art, including the famed Lascaux Cave ... and Font-de-Gaume cave, with colorful rock paintings. Don’t miss Rouffignac ...

At least 400 caves in Europe, such as Lascaux and Chauvet in France and Altamira in Spain, have art on the walls drawn by Homo… Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! We'll also keep ...