Discovered in 2000 by an amateur cave explorer, the Grotte de Cussac in the Dordogne department holds ancient human remains, ...

Writing goes back about 5,000 years, but the spoken words is over a million years old. Psychology, biology and archaeology ...

When you realize the size of some ... went down to the Lascaux. The images were in animal form. The form is secondary; the message is what's important. And the message of the cave?

Scientists have found ancient nail tooth shark fossils deep inside Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, revealing new information about ...

Once a popular tourist spot from 1948 to 1963, the Lascaux Cave in Paris is now completely closed to the public. This closure is due to the damage inflicted on the prehistoric paintings, approximately ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

So after work, he and a few cave guides at the park set out to see what they could find, squeezing into tiny spaces the size of an iPad, previously thought to be dead ends on the map. "We did find ...

Fossilized bone fragments unearthed in a cave in northern Spain in 2022 have revealed a previously unknown human population that lived more than 1.1 million years ago, according to new research.

Deep within Mammoth Cave, the world’s longest cave system, paleontologists have uncovered the remains of a never-before-seen ...

Caves in Reigate are a tourist attraction, but less is known about the ones lurking underfoot in Godstone When a giant sinkhole swallowed up part of a road in Surrey it caused homes to be ...

But the hole in Godstone has also led many to question whether stories of a mysterious labyrinth of disused caves and quarries beneath the surface are to blame. Peter Burgess, of the Wealden Cave ...