LOS ANGELES – During the last ice age, 25,000 years ago, a man – or woman – painted spotted horses on the walls of caves at what is now Pech Merle, France. Scholars still argue about why. Did this ...

In the painted cave of Pech Merle near Cahors in France, two horses seem to float on a stone panel – a natural wall of rock that stands more or less vertical. It offered the artists who worked here in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 1. In 1889, the legendary Orient Express began rail service to Constantinople from which European capital city? 2. Scientists are unsure of how or why the ...

A path leads from a village in the Cahors region of south-west France up a wooded, rocky hillside, commanding spectacular views of a deeply cut valley. Among the green pastures and woods in this ...

Stone Age cave paintings of white horses with black spots may have depicted real animals, rather than spirit horses, as sometimes assumed. Some archaeologists argue that no horses with “leopard” ...

Pech Merle’s handprints are red and black ‘negative hand stencils’. Handprint imagery in caves has been found on every inhabited continent and, with prehistoric painting in general, came into ...