September 2025 - 9 days for £5,395 per person. Embark on a captivating journey through time as you explore key Neanderthal ...

Patrick Aventurier/GettyImages Between 17,000 and 12,000 years ago, unnamed artists covered the extensive Lascaux cave system in France’s Dordogne ... that something special had been discovered.

The World Heritage site of Chauvet Cave in southern France is famous—and a source of both wonder and controversy—for having the world’s oldest cave paintings. When the cave was discovered in ...

Because the paintings are often found deep inside caves in spots difficult to get to, it's likely that they were rarely visited and therefore of special ... and Chauvet in France and at Altamira ...

In the cramped confines of a small cavern to the south of Paris, scientists have 'read between the lines' on the floor and discovered what could be the oldest surviving three-dimensional map of a ...

Archeologists Discover a 17,000 Years Old Musical Instrument Deep Inside a Cave, Stunned to Get Near ... old conch shell discovered in Southern France could still produce notes.

In Southern France, a prehistoric cave houses paintings that date back 30,000 years, but rising waters threaten them. Archaeologists and craftsmen construct a full-sized replica of the cave to ...

A scene from Upper Paleolithic Chauvet cave, France. (photo credit: Prof. Jean Clottes.) The extinction of large animals in the Levant may explain why prehistoric humans did not paint on cave ...