Tourism, climate change, redevelopment and nature threaten the existence of some of the world’s most amazing sites, but – ...

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The Lascaux caves -- which are also located in Dordogne, though their artworks are estimated to be thousands of years younger than the Cussac carvings -- were closed to the public in 1963 to save ...

Lascaux cave in southwestern France contains about 680 painted frescoes and 1,500 engravings that were created around 21,000 years ago, according to the French Ministry of Culture.

THE discovery during the War of prehistoric paintings in the Lascaux Caves near Montignac in south-western France is of the highest interest. A large pine tree had blown down, and some French boys ...

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 ...

Discovered in 1940, Lascaux Cave is famous for its stunning prehistoric paintings, believed to be around 17,000 years old.

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Sept. 12, 1940, the Lascaux cave paintings, estimated to be 17,000 years old, were discovered in southwestern France.

The Lascaux cave paintings were accidentally discovered by four teenagers on this day in 1940. Marcel Ravidat, Jacques Marsal, Georges Agnel, and Simon Coencas stumbled upon the entrance to the ...

“I went to Lascaux, to the original cave. The Australian Government sent me and another Aboriginal lady there to study it, compare it with the Australian Aboriginal art.

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 ...