In 1947, LIFE magazine’s Ralph Morse went to Lascaux ... out that even though the cave was discovered a few years before, no one’s ever photographed the paintings inside.

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.

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 ...

Herzog’s grandfather was an archaeologist, and Herzog himself once earned money as a ball boy at a tennis court to buy a book ... Cave paintings. The world-famous Paleolithic cave paintings at ...

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 ...

The last of four boys who discovered the Lascaux cave paintings, a stunning display ... is like something out of a children's adventure book. On September 14, 1940, with World War II raging ...

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 ...

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 ...