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 astonishing ...

GOUMOIS, France (AP) _ Eight exhausted Swiss tourists, covered with mud but still wearing their cavers' helmets, emerged Saturday from a dank underground cave, three days after floodwaters trapped ...

Made by dragging fingers across relatively soft rock, lines, swirls and dots on the walls of a cave in France are the oldest known engravings by Neanderthals, according to a new analysis of the ...

Less than an hour from Paris, the Fontainebleau Forest harbors a little-known treasure: a cave adorned with glittering ...

The Cussac cave has more than 1,000 ancient carvings, including horses, bison, rhinos, ibex and stylised feminine forms - Copyright AFP Christophe ARCHAMBAULT The ...

Archaeologists have concluded that a series of engravings discovered on a cave wall in France were made by Neanderthals using their fingers, some 57,000 years ago. They could be the oldest such marks ...

The stripes, spots, and parallel lines etched into the walls of a cave in Central France more than 57,000 years ago have been identified by researchers as the earliest record of Neanderthal art. Their ...

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