On September 12, 1940,an 18-year-old mechanic’s apprentice named Marcel Ravidat followed his dog Robot into a hole near a fallen tree outside Montignac in southwestern France. Four days later, he ...

France’s historic Lascaux cave has long been closed to the public in order to protect the stunning prehistoric artwork hidden within its 18,000-year old walls. December 10th marked the unveiling of a ...

An exact replica of a cave painting in Lascaux showing a bison and aurochs facing each other, along with small horses and deer. | Patrick Aventurier/GettyImages Between 17,000 and 12,000 years ago, ...

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, 1940.

In September of 1940, a 18-year-old young man called Marcel Ravidat discovered a cave thanks to his dog. What started as a ...

You might have heard that Scenes from the Stone Age: The Cave Paintings of Lascaux opened at The Field Museum this week. You might have thought the curators hauled a bunch of caves to Chicago from ...

Biocides used in recent years to treat the growth of a black fungus on the cave-art-festooned walls of France’s Lascaux cave have eradicated some populations of human-introduced bacteria and fungi.

It was discovered by a dog called Robot, and has survived 17,000 years of climate change and human history. But the world's most famous cave art at Lascaux, France-- dubbed prehistory's "Sistine ...

In 1940, Marcel Ravidat, an 18-year-old from Montignac, France, followed his dog, Robot, into a hole near a fallen tree.