VILHONNEUR, France - A 27,000-year-old human skeleton laid out in a room decorated with ancient art and a crude representation of a face are among the rare finds in a cave in western France, officials ...

A hidden cave in France's Dordogne region, Cussac Cave, revealed thousands of years of history when explorer Marc Delluc ...

Crawling through tight underground passages in southern France, paleontologist Jean-David Moreau and his colleagues have to descend 500 meters below the surface to reach the only known footprints of ...

PRIVAS, France — Jean-Marie Chauvet noticed air whistling out from a crack on a plateau in southern France, so he and fellow cave enthusiasts went to investigate. What they found that Sunday in 1994 ...

Human beings have been making art forever. German director Werner Herzog’s 2010 film Cave of Forgotten Dreams (available on DVD) is a documentary about the oldest artwork in the world: cave paintings.

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 ...

France's Loire Valley is certainly known for its many chateaus, bed and breakfasts, and amazing wine. But if you're too busy focusing on fancy manses or food and drink, you could easily miss another ...