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.

Newly discovered cave art gives fresh insight into the minds of our ancestors - and upends the idea that a Stone Age cultural explosion was unique to Europe By Alison George 28 July 2021 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ben 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 paintings and rock art date back at least more than 57,000 years. They detail everything from an early form of writing to more recent dark stories of conflict.

While the findings reveal a lot about how Stone Age people used light to navigate caves, they also shed light on 12,500-year-old art that Intxaurbe helped discover deep in the Atxurra cave in 2015.

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