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Painters Recreating Prehistoric Art in Lascaux (Video)

It may be cave art, but it takes high-tech expertise to bring the paintings of France's Lascaux caves to life again. Artists are rushing to complete a new reproduction of the historic site before it's too late. (Video from AFP here)

Prehistoric People Created Art by Flickering Firelight, New Research Reveals

Our early ancestors probably created intricate artwork by firelight, an examination of 50 engraved stones unearthed in France has revealed. The stones were incised with artistic designs around 15,000 years ago and have patterns of heat damage which suggests they were carved close to the flickering light of a fire, the new study has found. […]

Girl, 6, Finds Huge 160mil Year-old Fossil With Plastic Shovel

A British girl of six, who unearthed a massive ammonite during her first archaeological dig, has donated it to a museum to be enjoyed by the public. The 16 inch-long fossilized sea creature with a spiral-patterned spiked shell was a mollusk that lived in the oceans during the Jurassic period