In September of 1940, a 18-year-old young man called Marcel Ravidat discovered a cave thanks to his dog. What started as a simple moment in the forest ended ...

On September 12, 1940,an 18-year-old mechanic’s apprentice named Marcel Ravidat followed his dog Robot into a hole near a ...

On a September day in 1940 while much of Europe was engulfed in war, four teenagers were walking through a forest in southern France when their dog fell down a hole. As they called for it they heard ...

This 'negative hand,' which researchers have dated to at least 67,800 years ago, is now the oldest known example of cave painting. The discovery fills a crucial gap in tracing the path of our species' ...

Archaeologists are pushing the origins of art far deeper into prehistory than anyone expected, revealing painted symbols and figures that appear to predate our own species. The latest discoveries ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The hand stencil was likely created by a population that is closely linked to the ancestors of Indigenous Australians. The cave ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Very, very few people have been allowed into the Chauvet cave in Southeastern France since it was discovered in 1994 and found to ...

A hand stencil design on the wall of a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Kinez Riza A recently released study claiming that some of the paintings in the Maros-Pangkep caves in Indonesia are nearly as old ...

A team of Tel Aviv University researchers from the field of prehistoric archaeology has proposed an innovative hypothesis regarding an intriguing question: Why did ancient humans bring their young ...

In 1940, Marcel Ravidat, an 18-year-old from Montignac, France, followed his dog, Robot, into a hole near a fallen tree. Inside, he found a cave that .