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, ...

France’s historic Lascaux cave has long been closed to the public in order to protect the stunning prehistoric artwork hidden within its 18,000-year old walls. December 10th marked the unveiling of a ...

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When I tell people my daughter lives in France, their first thoughts are of Paris. When I say the south of France, they think of Cannes, Nice, and Marseilles. Actually, she lives two hours east of ...

Biocides used in recent years to treat the growth of a black fungus on the cave-art-festooned walls of France’s Lascaux cave have eradicated some populations of human-introduced bacteria and fungi.

The story is so improbable, so marvelous, that it feels more like the remnant of a dream, or a half-remembered myth, rather than something that unfolded within living memory. . . . September 12, 1940.

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Between 17,000 and 12,000 years ago, unnamed artists covered the extensive Lascaux cave system in France’s Dordogne region with hundreds of paintings of animals and abstract shapes. The astonishing ...