The Lascaux cave complex contains more than 600 paintings and around 1500 engravings of animals, abstract symbols, and a single human-like figure. (Humans are rarely depicted in any of the ...

Like Lascaux 16 years before it, Altamira shut down in 1979 after tourist numbers of almost 180,000 a year endangered the cave; it reopened in 1982 with a limit of 8,000 annual visitors.

Lascaux cave. Credit: PHILIPPE LOPEZ via Getty Images. Lascaux cave in southwestern France contains about 680 painted frescoes and 1,500 engravings that were created around 21,000 years ago, ...

If you enter Lascaux into the GPS, the computer will plot a complicated route to a blip of a farming community elbow-deep in the hilly boonies. It’s miles from the cave – as well as anything else.

For more than 17,000 years, the bestiary of the Lascaux cave in southwestern France survived the ravages of history, unseen and undiscovered. Entering it now is like walking into a time capsule ...

PARIS -- Geologists, biologists and other scientists convened Thursday in Paris to discuss how to stop the spread of fungus stains that threaten France's prehistoric Lascaux cave drawings. Black ...

A revisionist two-part doc, ‘Master Sapiens’ shows how people really lived and painted with extraordinary sophistication 21,000 years ago.

One of the biggest and best-known cave painting is an 18-foot-wide image of an extinct wild ox, or aurochs, that seems to gallop across the Great Hall at Lascaux—and dates to around 18,000 years ...