These caves are more than just historical sites; they’re windows into the creativity and lives of our ancestors. Each artwork ...

The true significance of these magnificent cave paintings at Lascaux and Chauvet in France and at Altamira in Spain remains elusive. But scientists conclude that this art, some of it brilliant ...

such as those documenting the Cave of Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, a famed French repository of 36,000-year-old paintings of rhinoceroses, mammoths, lions and bison. “Standing in front of a drawing that old is ...

Movie stars would be dumbstruck; the art world would cheer. Marclay’s film, painstakingly assembled out of time-specific clips from classic movies, was a 24-hour odyssey of chronology. 2. The Chauvet ...

This story appears in the January 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. This is where the cave lions are. And the woolly rhinos, mammoths, and bison, a menagerie of ancient creatures ...

Image caption, Cave paintings continue to fascinate archaeologists ... “In the 1990s when we first began to see what was underground in the Chauvet Cave in France it was a revelation because ...

Chauvet Cave, in southern France, filled with vivid Paleolithic paintings of wildlife, shows us that lions inhabited Europe along with humans 30 millennia ago; the Book of Daniel suggests that ...

A Neolithic age tiger carving found in the Helan Mountains of China, a Paleolithic era charcoal drawing of a group of lions drawn on the Chauvet Cave in Europe, a 1,700-year-old cave painting of a ...

A painting discovered on the wall of an Indonesian cave has been found to be 44,000 years old. The art appears to show a buffalo being hunted by part-human, part-animal creatures holding spears ...

As evidenced by the Palawa oral traditions of the Tasmanian Aboriginals and the Chauvet cave drawings in Southern ... storytelling is truly a blend of art and science. On the art side, you combine ...

Explore ancient wonders like Stonehenge, Lascaux Cave, and Göbekli Tepe, revealing humanity's rich prehistoric heritage. From mysterious monuments to breathtaking cave paintings, delve into our ...