You might have heard that Scenes from the Stone Age: The Cave Paintings of Lascaux opened at The Field Museum this week. You might have thought the curators hauled a bunch of caves to Chicago from ...

Kevin O’Leary’s “Lascaux,” now having its world premiere run in a production by the Pie Man Theatre, takes the actual discovery of prehistoric cave paintings in France in 1940 as a source ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Caves can be fascinating, if sometimes dangerous places to explore ...

It's still debated when Peking man used the caves, but it may have been at different times between roughly 200,000 and 800,000 years ago. Homo sapiens also made use of the caves around 18,000 to ...

A dead man was found in a cave along the Slate Heritage Trail in Slatington Borough, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania State Police announced on Tuesday, Dec. 31. Troopers from PSP Troop M – Bethlehem ...

Anne Arundel County police are investigating a fiery single-vehicle crash in Severn that left one dead. The man, a 22-year-old from Easton, was pronounced dead on the scene. Police said they are wi… ...

CAVE CREEK, Ariz. - A man is dead after authorities say he barricaded himself inside a garage in a Cave Creek neighborhood. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office says deputies responded to Ironwood ...

The discovery of what would soon become known as the world's premier example of prehistoric art occurred by accident. In 1940, four teenage friends were exploring the woods in southern France when ...

F or more than 16,000 years, the prehistoric paintings in France’s famed Lascaux Cave survived in splendid isolation. Then, after the discovery of the cave by four French schoolboys in 1940, man ...

Paintings in Lascaux cave are between 14,000 and 21,000 years old. One 17,000-year-old mural there, which shows a bison chasing a human-like figure, was previously thought to be the oldest hunting ...

The oldest representational cave painting dates from about 30,000 years ago. Most date from 20,000 years ago or less, in what's called the Upper Paleolithic era.