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 ...

Cave of Forgotten Dreams Sundance Selects Octubre New Yorker Films A Screaming Man Film Movement He took a mouthful of colored liquid. He put his palm on the great rock. Then he sprayed his hand ...

More than 50 years after the Lascaux caves were closed to the public, a new exhibition, featuring a reproduction of the prehistoric cave art, has opened. Skip to content Skip to site index.

The Lascaux cave’s iconic Hall of Bulls details 36 paintings of deer, horses and bulls. (One bull stretches 17 feet). Photograph: Philippe Psaila, courtesy of the Field Museum .

“It’s almost too beautiful,” said the first scientist to descend into the Lascaux caves, according to “Scenes From the Stone Age: The Cave Paintings of Lascaux,” an im… ...

Sometime in the early 1940s, three boys and a dog discovered a series of caves near the village of Lascaux, in the Dordogne region of southwestern France. Actually, the dog made the discovery; 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.

The story is so improbable, so marvelous, that it feels more like the remnant of a dream, or a half-remembered myth, rather than something that unfolded within living memory. . . . September 12 ...