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 ...

The cave art even impressed filmmaker Werner Herzog enough to make a documentary about them. Here are a few more facts about the Chauvet Cave paintings.

Using animation, ‘The Final Passage’ reveals pre-historic rock art at France’s Chauvet-Pont d’Arc Cave ...

Climate change and pollution are threatening to wash away the art prehistoric men and women created over 15 millennia.

The Chauvet Cave, which lies by the entrance to the Gorges of the Ardèche, is home to the world's oldest cave paintings, dating back 36,000 years. The location of the cavern--surrounded by a ...

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 ...

This 30,000-year-old handprint from Chauvet Cave in France, made by mixing pigment with saliva inside the mouth and blowing the mixture onto a cave wall, is an emblem of the deep history of human ...

No, it's actually Chauvet Cave in southern France. But the cave drawings in Werner Herzog's "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" reveal a modern sensibility -- that happens to be 32,000 years old.

A stunning replica of the 36,000 year-old Grotte Chauvet, home to the oldest figurative cave drawings in the world and an Unesco Heritage site, opened to the public at the weekend. Here's a look ...

Locarno: ‘The Final Passage’ – Pre-Historic Rock Art as Rarely Seen Before Seeming 28-minute traveling shot visits France’s extraordinary Chauvet-Pont d’Arc Cave.