Some drawings at Lascaux are 2.5 to 3.5 meters (8.2 to 11.4 feet) from the floor of the cave near the chambers’ ceilings. To archaeologists, they present a conundrum: How did the artists reach such ...

Lascaux cave paintings are perhaps the greatest masterpiece ... adorn the walls of the caves, situated in Dordogne in southern France. While the original caves are now closed to the public ...

The caves in France's Dordogne region remained opened to visitors until 1948 when the decision was made to close the site to preserve the fragile paintings. Artists have recreated fragments of the ...