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 ...

The French government is taking emergency action to rescue the celebrated cave paintings of the Lascaux caverns from a fungus. Archeological experts have begun applying a fungicide to halt the spread ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

A monumental discovery was made on September 12, 1940, when four local teenagers explored a small opening and squeezed ...

France's Lascaux Cave was one of the most important anthropological and historical finds of the 20th century. The cave's interior walls were covered in paintings that depicted animals, people, and ...

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.