Then you go to Lascaux. When the Stone Age cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux were stumbled upon in modern times, archaeologists and anthropologists regarded them as certainly frauds. The ...

They also feature prominently in another French cave, Cosquer in Marseille, where 28 of the 49 hand stencils are missing digits. One idea is that Stone Age people deliberately removed their digits.

Using the 3D data gathered by the archaeological teams, the 23-million-euro ($24-million) replica is slightly smaller than the original cave but includes copies of all the paintings and 90 percent ...

Koppal: Stone Age cave paintings and an inscription were found in Kattekallu hill near HG Ramulu Nagar on Koppal Road in Gangavathi taluk. These were discovered by a team led by researchers Dr ...

Instead of finding these fabled treasures, however, the Zerzura Club explorers would reveal marvels of another kind: thousands of Stone Age cave paintings in Gilf Kebir, in southwestern Egypt. It ...

My InsiderBen Bacon, a furniture restorer by day, spent his nights analyzing photographs of cave paintings, according to The Times. His hobby led to the "first specific reading of European Upper ...

Cave art that had been created in the Paleolithic age is thought to be the world's first attempt at producing a moving picture, not a muddled mess of limbs and heads. In cave paintings across ...

Stone Age people living in Europe 20,000 years ago may have devised a simple form of writing to record the habits of the animals they hunted, according to a study of mysterious symbols on ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Ben Bacon, a London-based furniture conservator, about decoding a 20,000-year-old writing system. If I say Stone Age cave paintings, what comes to mind - stick ...

Through March 23, 2014, Scenes from the Stone Age: The Cave Paintings of Lascaux will feature full-size replicas of the paintings.

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