B etween 17,000 and 12,000 years ago, unnamed artists covered the extensive Lascaux cave system in France’s Dordogne region with hundreds of paintings of animals and abstract shapes. The ...

Near one of the tighter passages between chambers at Lascaux, undulating walls and an arched ceiling illuminated by the lights lugged down from the surface into the usually pitch-black caverns, 1947.

Buried treasure: How four teenagers stumbled upon the Lascaux cave paintings. A chance discovery by French schoolboys 80 years ago led to one of the most significant archaeological finds in the world.

Kevin O’Leary’s “Lascaux,” now having its world premiere run in a production by the Pie Man Theatre, takes the actual discovery of prehistoric cave paintings in France in 1940 as a source ...

In Lascaux, someone painted a line of dots underneath this magnificently horned Irish elk. HTO, Wikimedia Commons; A pot-bellied horse runs across the wall of a cave in Lascaux.

Lascaux II – as the re-created Dordogne cave is known – was the first of its kind. But it started a trend – and one which made headlines earlier this year in another part of France.

Lascaux 2, an impressive reproduction of part of the caves, was opened in 1983, to allow people to get a sense of the paintings, without irrevocably ruining the originals.

The Lascaux cave became a popular tourist site after World War II. But it had to be sealed off to the public in 1963 because the breath and sweat of visitors created carbon dioxide and humidity ...

Lascaux’s Hall of Bulls contains the largest known animal image in cave art. Horses are the most frequently depicted animals in Lascaux with a total of 364 images, followed by groups of felines ...