France’s historic Lascaux cave has long been closed to the public in order to protect the stunning prehistoric artwork hidden within its 18,000-year old walls. December 10th marked the unveiling of a ...

On Dec. 4 the meeting of the Fredonia Shakespeare Club took place at the home of Lucille Richardson with Joan Larson hosting.

An exact replica of a cave painting in Lascaux showing a bison and aurochs facing each other, along with small horses and deer. | Patrick Aventurier/GettyImages Between 17,000 and 12,000 years ago, ...

You might have heard that Scenes from the Stone Age: The Cave Paintings of Lascaux opened at The Field Museum this week. You might have thought the curators hauled a bunch of caves to Chicago from ...

When I tell people my daughter lives in France, their first thoughts are of Paris. When I say the south of France, they think of Cannes, Nice, and Marseilles. Actually, she lives two hours east of ...

Biocides used in recent years to treat the growth of a black fungus on the cave-art-festooned walls of France’s Lascaux cave have eradicated some populations of human-introduced bacteria and fungi.

France's Lascaux Cave was one of the most important anthropological and historical finds of the 20th century. The cave's interior walls were covered in paintings that depicted animals, people, and ...

It was discovered by a dog called Robot, and has survived 17,000 years of climate change and human history. But the world's most famous cave art at Lascaux, France-- dubbed prehistory's "Sistine ...

The story is so improbable, so marvelous, that it feels more like the remnant of a dream, or a half-remembered myth, rather than something that unfolded within living memory. . . . September 12, 1940.