Cave painting. Image by Openverse. The famous Lascaux Cave in southwestern France contains one of prehistoric art’s most enigmatic figures—an animal dubbed the “Lascaux unicorn.” Created approximately ...

Authorities are anxious to avoid a repeat of the damage done to France’s Lascaux caves by microorganisms brought in by visitors. The Lascaux caves – which are also located in Dordogne ...

An exact replica of a cave painting in Lascaux showing a bison and aurochs facing each other, along with small horses and deer. | Patrick Aventurier/GettyImages Between 17,000 and 12,000 years ago ...

1. People have been imagining unicorns for a really long time. The first known depiction of a unicorn—found in the Lascaux Caves of modern-day France—dates to around 15,000 BCE. Or so people ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Sept. 12, 1940, the Lascaux cave paintings, estimated to be 17,000 years old, were discovered in southwestern France.

The Lascaux cave paintings were accidentally discovered by four teenagers on this day in 1940. Marcel Ravidat, Jacques Marsal, Georges Agnel, and Simon Coencas stumbled upon the entrance to the ...

For its third week of the relay, the Olympic flame left the Pyrénées-Atlantiques and headed for the Dordogne, where it passed through the Lascaux caves before heading for Saint-Emilion.

“Master Sapiens” is a dive into the Lascaux Cave, considered by experts to be the first art school in history. The series is available as one 52′ documentary or two 45′ episodes, produced ...

On this day in 1940, the entrance to Lascaux Cave in France was discovered, opening up a window into the lives of our forebearers. On 12 September 1940, 18-year-old Marcel Ravidat was walking his ...

Starting at the beginning of the story, the caves at Lascaux in the Valley of Vezere on the Dordogne ... a group of deer, and a so-named unicorn, the last animal on the left. Images of animals were ...