The 1.6-kilometer (mile-long) cave has more than 1,000 carved figures, both animals and stylized feminine forms. The site was a 'sanctuary', not a dwelling, says lead archaeologist Jacques Jaubert.

The world’s largest cave is over five miles long - so big that even a Boeing 747 could fit inside it. Hang Son Doong is in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in Vietnam, near the border with Laos ...

Grotte de Cussac holds ancient human remains, long-extinct bears and stunning artworks Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago ...

Discovered in 2000 by an amateur cave explorer, the Grotte de Cussac in the Dordogne department holds ancient human remains, traces of long-extinct bears and stunning, fragile artworks its ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, mammoths and rhinoceros into the walls, a fabulous prehistoric menagerie ...

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