The smooth curves and fine details in the paintings in the Chauvet cave are so advanced that some scholars believe they date from 12,000 to 17,000 years ago.

Humans love to decorate, and that's been true for a long time. Early humans have been painting on the walls for tens of ...

To reach the only place in the world where cave paintings of prehistoric marine life have been found, archaeologists have to dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean off southern France. Then they ...

French President Francois Hollande on Saturday opened a new replica of the famous Lascaux caves where prehistoric hunters painted hundreds of images of animals like aurochs, horses and deer on the ...

A new museum has opened in Marseille, France, that features a replica of the famed underwater Cosquer Cave, filled with prehistoric rock art.

Depiction of horses in Chauvet Cave in southern France. Javier Trueba Rodriguez/Science Photo Library/Corbis Depictions of ancient animals in the Caverne du Pont d'Arc near Vallon, France, a ...

Archaeologists have uncovered cave drawings in eastern France that are more than 12,000 years old, but were hidden for hundreds of years under graffiti from the 16th to 19th centuries.

The car’s GPS is programmed to tell us the winding way to Lascaux, the famous cave where Cro-Magnons painted pictures of bison on the walls.

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 ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses.

The sketch is at least 40,000 years old, slightly older than similar animal paintings found in famous caves in France and Spain.