Because the paintings are often found deep inside caves in spots difficult to get to, it's likely that they were rarely visited and therefore of special importance. One hypothesis is that the art ...

A cave shelter near Paris that was known to be home to interesting Palaeolithic art was recently known to also host a three-dimensional map or model of the area around it. It was speculated that ...

The fate of 40 Mississippian cave drawings in unknown after historic flooding at Dunbar Cave last month. The drawings are ...

Dunbar Cave is home to the oldest cave art in the U.S., which dates back 800 ... “It’s an emotional scene inside the cave for our Rangers, but our number one job is to preserve, protect ...

The remains of human handprints have also been found inside Chauvet ... relatively little plant and animal life. The cave gets its name from rock art that depicts people who appear to be swimming.

Artists have recreated fragments of the paintings inside the museum, which is kept at a constant cave-like temperature. The team used advanced 3D laser scanning and casting techniques to achieve ...

Here’s why South Dakota is the ‘undisputed queen of maze caves’ in the U.S. Here’s ... caves’ in the U.S. This 45,500-year-old pig painting is the world’s oldest animal art This ...

Carbon dating on the drawings and torch fragments date the charcoal paintings inside the cave to around 700 years ago, with carbon tests estimating the drawings to 1350 A.D., plus or minus 50 ...