VILHONNEUR, France - A 27,000-year-old human skeleton laid out in a room decorated with ancient art and a crude representation of a face are among the rare finds in a cave in western France, officials ...

Human beings have been making art forever. German director Werner Herzog’s 2010 film Cave of Forgotten Dreams (available on DVD) is a documentary about the oldest artwork in the world: cave paintings.

LOMBRIVES CAVE, France (AP) — Ever wonder what it would feel like to unplug from a hyperconnected world and hide away in a dark cave for 40 days? Fifteen people in France did just that, emerging ...

VILHONNEUR, France – A 27,000-year-old human skeleton laid out in a room decorated with ancient art was among the rare finds at a cave in western France whose subterranean art predates that of the ...

PRIVAS, France — 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 Sunday in 1994 ...

A group of 15 volunteers emerged from a dark cave in southwestern France on Saturday after living 40 days in complete isolation — with no sense of time, natural light or communication with the outside ...

CAVE drawings thought to be older than those in the famed caves of Lascaux have been discovered in a grotto in western France, officials from the Charente region said yesterday. A first analysis by ...

Animal images painted 35,000 years ago at France's Chauvet Cave can now be seen in replica. Anthropologist Barbara J. King says this is much more... Starting around 35,000 years ago, our ancestors ...

In the creeks near Marseille, 37 metres underwater, lies the only submerged cave on the planet that's covered with cave paintings. On its damp walls, people have painted horses, bison, ibex and even ...