The Chauvet-Pont D'Arc cave is one of the most famous underground caverns in the world, housing one of the oldest and best-preserved collections of prehistoric cave paintings ever discovered. Now, ...

What constitutes art is heavily debated, and that's especially true for prehistoric art. But here are some of the contenders for the title of the world's oldest art. Many were made by anatomically ...

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Director and filmmaker, Werner Herzog’s latest, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, is a strange mix of flighty pseudo-intellectual reverie and jaw-dropping documentary. Filmed in the famously inaccessible ...

By wile and charm — and through contacts with the French Ministry of Culture — Werner Herzog, the prolific documentarian and fiction director (Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call — New Orleans) talked his ...

In the absence of any documentation on prehistory, speleological explorations are the only way to reconstruct the history of ancient times. Tools, bones, everyday objects, carvings, sculptures and ...

Very, very few people have been allowed into the Chauvet cave in Southeastern France since it was discovered in 1994 and found to contain ancient cave paintings dating back more than 30,000 years.

To reach the only place in the world where cave paintings of prehistoric marine life have been found, archaeologists have to dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean off southern France. Then they have ...

LOCARNO: Beginning in dense darkness, which magnifies slight sounds, Pascal Magontier’s “The Final Passage” is a seeming 28-minute traveling shot through the caverns and natural vaults of southern ...

A painting of hands painted 67,800 years ago has just been discovered on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. This discovery sheds new light on the great human migrations across Oceania.