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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.

PARIS (Reuters) - Nearly six decades after France's prehistoric Lascaux caves were made off-limits, visitors will be once again be able to tour the site - only this time in virtual reality. The cave ...

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 discovery of what would soon become known as the world's premier example of prehistoric art occurred by accident. In 1940, four teenage friends were exploring the woods in southern France when ...

MONTIGNAC, France (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande on Saturday opened a new replica of the famous Lascaux caves where prehistoric hunters painted hundreds of images of animals like ...

Europe is rich in history, but its splendid castles, antique churches, and age-old ruins tell only part of the story. To dig ...

This is probably the closest we’ll get to viewing “the most celebrated Paleolithic cave paintings in art history,” said Chris Miller in Newcity. The 20,000-year-old Lascaux cave paintings of ...

Lascaux, a cave in southwestern France that holds a dazzling gallery of ice-age paintings, is under siege again. Recent blunders in conservation efforts at the cave have altered its microclimate, and ...

In September of 1940, a teenage apprentice mechanic named Marcel Ravidat was out walking in the Dordogne region of France. He discovered a hole in the earth. Four days later he and three teenage ...

SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE – I long ago lost my sense of direction during what I’ve dubbed The Tour de la Ferme, aka The Farm Tour. The car’s talkative GPS is programmed to tell us the winding way to Lascaux ...

Sept. 12 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1609, Henry Hudson discovered what is now known as the Hudson River. In 1940, near Montignac, France, the prehistoric Lascaux cave paintings, believed to ...