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.

“There were more people in that screening room just now than have ever been in the Chauvet cave,” said Zach Zorich, a senior editor at Archaeology magazine, gesturing toward 100 working and ...

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 ...

If Chauvet Cave had been pried open 5,000 years ago, it might have provided shelter; 500 years ago, an opportunity for plunder; five decades ago, a bonanza for tourism.

Chauvet Cave in southern France houses the oldest representational paintings ever discovered. Created some 32,000 years ago, the 400-plus images of large grazing animals and the predators who ...

Chauvet cave in southeastern France has drawings and engravings that date to around 32,000 years ago, according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The cave's interior includes ...

Cave Bears The way that people used Chauvet Cave was shaped by their interactions with the cave's primary residents, the now-extinct cave bear.

Few people have ever been allowed inside, ... Inside is a recreation of some of the Chauvet cave's most important features, reproduced to scale. It's cost 55m euros to build, ...

BBC Newsnight gets rare access to one of the most important cave art sites in the world - and visits its vast replica, which is about to open in France.