VILHONNEUR, France - A 27,000-year-old human skeleton laid out in a room decorated with ancient art and a crude representation of a face are among the rare finds in a cave in western France ...

Cave paintings in the Chauvet Cave in southern France, discovered in 1994. Courtesy photo Human beings have been making art forever.

VILHONNEUR, France – A 27,000-year-old human skeleton laid out in a room decorated with ancient art was among the rare finds at a cave in western France whose subterranean art predates that of ...

A detailed copy of a cave containing the oldest figurative drawings made by Europe’s prehistoric inhabitants opened over the weekend [April 25.2015] in France, not far from the original cave.

PRIVAS, France — Jean-Marie Chauvet noticed air whistling out from a crack on a plateau in southern France, so he and fellow cave enthusiasts went to investigate. What they found that Sunday in ...

It will run between Montenvers Station and the glacier and ice caves in the valley below. Visitors have also historically been able to walk to the glacier from the station, although the journey ...

Using new techniques, the authors dated some of the human remains to about 54,000 years ago — almost 10,000 years earlier than previous finds in Europe, with one exception in Greece.

Members of the French team that participated in the "Deep Time" study, emerge from the Lombrives Cave after 40 days underground in Ussat les Bains, France, Saturday, April 24, 2021.