The location of the entrance to the underwater cave. Credit: Lu-xin / Wikimedia Commons There is a curious spot located in the south of France, a cave with rock paintings whose main peculiarity is the ...

Some 12,500 years ago, hunter-gatherers populated the caves of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands, surrounding the Rio Grande border between Mexico and West Texas. These people left arrowheads, earth ovens, ...

Cut from a sheer cliff face nearly a thousand years ago, India's Ajanta Caves are home to sacred Buddhist spaces adorned with vibrant works of ancient art. Carved in timeThe Buddhist cave temples near ...

a policy article published in the journal Science in October 2011, Spanish scientists argued against the reopening of Altamira Cave, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The cave contains multicolored cave ...

But far beneath the chaos, an alternative awaits: caving. Caving, also known as spelunking, goes deeper than your average commercial cavern tour. “It’s climbing, crawling, scrambling, rappelling, and ...

One attraction in the Scott County community of Jordan brings you deep inside the earth. Jim and Grace Cramond own the historic Jordan Caves. “Every which way you turn, you find a new gem with this ...

The oldest known images on cave walls and stone fragments are forcing a rewrite of who first made art and how sophisticated those early pictures really were. Far from crude doodles, these works show ...

The Pecos River murals are a stunning collection of monumental, multicolored rock paintings in limestone rock shelters across southwest Texas and northern Mexico. They depict human-like figures that ...

In a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, archaeologists recently uncovered ared ochre depiction of a warty pig. Measuring roughly four feet across, the painting is protected under a thin crust ...

From Santa Barbara, take U.S. Route 101 north, then turn onto State Route 154 toward Los Padres National Forest. From there, snake your way up Painted Cave Road, a treacherous strip of asphalt lacking ...