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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eighteen thousand years ago, our Ice Age ancestors practiced both cave art and cannibalism. Human remains found deep in a Polish ...
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 .
To a remarkable degree, the cave paintings executed over 20 millenniums until about 11,000 years ago are concentrated in southern France and northeastern Spain. Some cultural impulse drove the early ...
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 ...
In 1940 in Dordogne, France, four boys stumbled upon a long forgotten cave, a jewel of prehistoric art and a major archeological revelation. The cave was named Lascaux. Now a World Heritage site, ...
Ravidat was on a break from school and exploring the woods of Montignac in Dordogne, in the south of France, when he noticed Robot sniffing around a small hole created by a tree that had been uprooted ...
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE – I long ago lost my sense of direction during what I’ve dubbed The Tour de la Ferme, aka The Farm Tour. The car’s talkative GPS is programmed to tell us the winding way to Lascaux ...
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, where ...
To reach the only place in the world where cave paintings of prehistoric marine life have been found, archaeologists have to dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean off southern France. Then they have ...
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' ...
On September 12, 1940,an 18-year-old mechanic’s apprentice named Marcel Ravidat followed his dog Robot into a hole near a fallen tree outside Montignac in southwestern France. Four days later, he ...