Thirty years ago, three explorers discovered the Chauvet cave, a site in southeastern France that was cut off from the world for thousands of years. Inside, paintings and engravings dating back ...

Some of the paintings were found to be over 45,500 years old, predating the famous Lascaux and Chauvet cave paintings by several thousand years. Now, a new study in the journal Nature suggests ...

The World Heritage site of Chauvet Cave in southern France is famous—and a source of both wonder and controversy—for having the world’s oldest cave paintings. When the cave was discovered in ...

Hidden by a rock slide for 22,000 years, the cave came to light in December 1994, when three spelunkers named Eliette Brunel, Christian Hillaire, and Jean-Marie Chauvet scrambled through a narrow ...

The Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave in southeastern France is a jewel of prehistoric art. When it was discovered in December 1994, it amazed the world with its vivid cave paintings, believed to be over ...

Explore the 9 oldest-known archaeological sites, from Theopetra Cave to Göbekli Tepe, and Altamira. Dive into early human history and fascinating cave art.

A Neolithic age tiger carving found in the Helan Mountains of China, a Paleolithic era charcoal drawing of a group of lions drawn on the Chauvet Cave in Europe, a 1,700-year-old cave painting of a ...