Recent studies at France's famous Chauvet Cave reveal the remarkable secret behind how its ancient paintings have stood the test of time.

A woman whose bone lay in Isturitz Cave carried ancestry from central and eastern Europe, and human DNA from cave dirt in ...

Scientists have discovered genetic links between eastern and western European populations after analysing DNA from a woman who lived around 30,000 years ago in southwestern France. The study, led by t ...

UV fluorescence reveals a natural calcite varnish protecting 37,000-year-old Chauvet Cave paintings, without touching the fragile art.

Some of the oldest drawings known to humanity, made roughly 37,000 years ago in France’s Chauvet Cave, are covered by a thin, ...

Explore the Chauvet cave in southern France, an important archaeological site known for its ancient artwork that dates back tens of millennia. Although direct access to the original cave is restricted ...

A bone found in a cave by an international team of anthropologists in France may represent a previously unknown lineage of Homo sapiens. The study is published in the journal Scientific Reports. The ...

A new museum in France gives visitors the chance to step inside a replica of the famed Cosquer Cave, an underground grotto off the coast of Marseille that was once home to more than 500 works of ...

For over a decade, Maria Medina, an archaeologist affiliated with the University of Cordoba, has been conducting research on what she terms “smoke archaeology”: trying to reconstruct Europe’s ...