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.

In 1940, an eighteen year old and his dog squeezed into a hole beneath a fallen tree in southwest France and stepped into a hidden cave painted with powerful bulls, horses and deer that had not seen ...

To a remarkable degree, the cave paintings executed over 20 millenniums until about 11,000 years ago are concentrated in southern France and northeastern Spain. Some cultural impulse drove the early ...

PARIS, June 24 (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.