Slowly but surely, the mysterious and haunting Chauvet cave is giving up its secrets. The cave, declared a UNESCO World Heritage site two years ago, was discovered in the south of France in 1994.

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Depiction of horses in Chauvet Cave in southern France. Javier Trueba Rodriguez/Science Photo Library/Corbis Depictions of ancient animals in the Caverne du Pont d'Arc near Vallon, France, a ...

Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave is located in southeastern France, just off the bank of the Ardèche river. Discovered on December 18, 1994, the cave is thought to have been inhabited by humans at two ...

They include France's Chauvet Cave, dated to at least 32,000 years ago and featuring the earliest known cave art, as well as the roughly 15,000-year-old caves of Lascaux in France and Altamira in ...

Full-scale reproductions of frescos found at the cave of Pont-D'Arc, also known as the Chauvet cave, are on display in Vallon Pont D'Arc, France, in 2015. The Chauvet cave paintings are the world ...

What they found that Sunday in 1994 still fills Chauvet’s voice with wonder: an immense cave covered with prehistoric paintings of horses, mammoths and rhinos — paintings so vivid, he says, it ...

Cave painters during the Ice Age were more like da Vinci than Dali, sketching realistic depictions of horses they saw rather than dreaming them up, a study of ancient DNA finds.

Depiction of horses in Chauvet Cave in southern France. Javier Trueba Rodriguez/Science Photo Library/Corbis Depictions of ancient animals in the Caverne du Pont d'Arc near Vallon, France, a ...