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.

PRIVAS, France (AP) — 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 ...

Their leader, Jean-Marie Chauvet, gave his surname to the cave. The public has never been allowed in, and never will be, apart from a few dozen a year, for fear of damaging the “Chauvet” works ...

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 ...

The prehistoric cave, Grotte Chauvet, in France now a World Heritage site. IT IS a cave so closely guarded that only three people know the code to the half-tonne reinforced door that seals its ...

France's Chauvet Cave is guarded by a half-tonne reinforced door that seals it entrance, the code known only by three people, with cameras keeping watch 24 hours a day.

Herzog’s film focuses on the Chauvet Cave in southern France, discovered in 1994. ... Early humans painted in Chauvet Cave about 32,000 years ago, according to the film.

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 ...

This week, France in Focus heads underground to explore the "Sistine Chapel" of prehistory. Thirty years ago, three explorers discovered the Chauvet cave, a site in southeastern France that was ...