From stunning artwork to evidence of elaborate prehistoric butchering, Live Science takes a look at seven amazing caves that ...

2. Cave of El Castillo Age: 40,800 BCE (Image: Wikipedia Commons) Chauvet Cave in France contains remarkable paintings of animals like lions and rhinoceroses, created around 30,000 BCE ...

to cave paintings most notably at the Chauvet Cave in southeastern France. The cave boasts the earliest figurative cave painting in Europe, dating to 30,000-32,000 years ago. Discovered in 1994, it ...

The Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave in southeastern France is a jewel of prehistoric art. When it was discovered in December 1994, it amazed the world with its vivid cave paintings, believed to be over ...

Chauvet cave in southeastern France has drawings and engravings that date to around 32,000 years ago, according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

A painting made inside a cave in Mexico, which houses art made centuries ago, has been carved from the wall by looters with an electric saw, archaeologists said. The cave, known as La Cueva Pinta ...

On the walls were innumerable paintings, many of them of large size, which were soon recognized as being palæolithic. Lascaux, though some distance from the well-known cave sites near LesEyzies ...

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