PARIS (Reuters) - Nearly six decades after France's prehistoric Lascaux caves were made off-limits, visitors will be once again be able to tour the site - only this time in virtual reality. The cave ...

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Europe is rich in history, but its splendid castles, antique churches, and age-old ruins tell only part of the story. To dig even deeper in time – much deeper – visit a cave. Some of my favorites, in ...

A reader once asked me if I were to bring a spry, 73-year-old grandmother to Europe, where would I go? My response: France’s Dordogne River Valley. I’d take her for a lazy canoe ride down the river, ...

Among the Paleolithic artists who left behind paint-decorated caves were kids as young as 3, a new study finds. In fact, finger-painting tots were quite prolific 13,000 years ago in the Cave of a ...

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 ...

PARIS — For many, the Lascaux caves are the honey pot for what became artistic in the Western tradition. In La Peinture Prehistorique Lascaux Ou La Naissance de L’Art, Georges Bataille put forth the ...

PARIS, June 24 (Reuters) - Nearly six decades after France's prehistoric Lascaux caves were made off-limits, visitors will be once again be able to tour the site - only this time in virtual reality.

Europe is rich in history, but its splendid castles, antique churches, and age-old ruins tell only part of the story. To dig even deeper in time — much deeper — visit a cave. Some of my favorites, in ...