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

Between 17,000 and 12,000 years ago, unnamed artists covered the extensive Lascaux cave system in France’s Dordogne ... the news spread 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 ...

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 ...