Photographer Bernard Sury focuses a camera on cave paintings at Lascaux, 1947. Ralph Morse—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Not published in LIFE. Inside Lascaux, 1947.

Called Lascaux IV, the new visitor complex recreates the appearance and atmosphere of the caves in Montignac where the 20,000-year-old Lascaux paintings are located, but which have been closed to ...

A major new building by architecture firm Snøhetta has opened in the south of France, framing a huge replica of one of the world's most important examples of prehistoric cave art. Called Lascaux ...

Lascaux’s Hall of Bulls contains the largest known animal image in cave art. Horses are the most frequently depicted animals in Lascaux with a total of 364 images, followed by groups of felines ...

THE discovery during the War of prehistoric paintings in the Lascaux Caves near Montignac in south-western France is of the highest interest. A large pine tree had blown down, and some French boys ...

Buried treasure: How four teenagers stumbled upon the Lascaux cave paintings. A chance discovery by French schoolboys 80 years ago led to one of the most significant archaeological finds in the world.

Lascaux III, an international travelling exhibition was also launched in 2012, allowing visitors to see a replica of some of the cave's paintings without travelling to Dordogne.

The actual Lascaux cave sits about 200 metres away up a slight incline. Four boys and their dog from a nearby village discovered the cave in 1940 after the animal fell through a hole in the hillside.

World-renowned French paleoanthropologist Yves Coppens delivers a lecture on the famous cave paintings of Lascaux. The cave system contains nearly 2,000 colorful figures of animals and people in ...