Ancient cave decorations can be breathtaking to behold, but new research claims the artists may have been starved of oxygen when they were painting. Analyzing cave paintings from the Upper Paleolithic ...

Photograph and tracing of horse B.II.1, engraved on the right-hand wall in Aitzbitarte Cave III (O. Rivero and D. Garate / PLOS ONE, CC BY) (CN) — Researchers have discovered never-before-seen rock ...

Caves were like deadly Dutch ovens of divine inspiration. Israeli scientists may have finally discovered the source of ancient cave painters’ creativity ...

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 ...

An amateur archaeologist cracked a 20,000-year-old code hidden in Europe’s Ice Age cave paintings. The dots and lines beside animals like bison and reindeer form a lunar calendar tracking mating and ...

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