The actual Lascaux cave sits about 200 metres away up a slight incline. ... Colombo said the building is fully accessible and the tours are offered in several languages. The cafe offers regular ...

The Lascaux cave complex contains more than 600 paintings and around 1500 engravings of animals, ... opened in 1983 near the original cave. Tours are led by guides with flashlights, ...

The Lascaux Cave reproduction in France tries to re-create the cave experience, ... those would be Lascaux 2 and 3, the latter of which tours the world as a traveling exhibit), ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Sept. 12, 1940, the Lascaux cave paintings, estimated to be 17,000 years old, were discovered in southwestern ...

For more than 17,000 years, the bestiary of the Lascaux cave in southwestern France survived the ravages of history, unseen and undiscovered. Entering it now is like walking into a time capsule ...

What then became known as Lascaux III was a series of reproductions of the other caves, or galleries, which for the past eight years have been on tour around the world. And Lascaux IV, which ...

Lascaux cave. Credit: PHILIPPE LOPEZ via Getty Images. Lascaux cave in southwestern France contains about 680 painted frescoes and 1,500 engravings that were created around 21,000 years ago, ...

Lascaux, though some distance from the well-known cave sites near LesEyzies, is after all not so far away from them, and local folk knew by hearsay all about such places as Font de Gaume ...

The discovery of the Lascaux Cave paintings in France during World War II changed how we view art and its importance to us as human beings. The loose line drawings from the Paleolithic Era are in ...