I tip the torchlight and examine a wall in my hotel room. From a distance, the wall looks like vanilla frosting roughly applied. Up close, I see nuggets of caramel-colored stone, faint brown ...

Crawling through tight underground passages in southern France, paleontologist Jean-David Moreau and his colleagues have to descend 500 meters below the surface to reach the only known footprints of ...

Human beings have been making art forever. German director Werner Herzog’s 2010 film Cave of Forgotten Dreams (available on DVD) is a documentary about the oldest artwork in the world: cave paintings.

Fifteen volunteers have emerged from a cave in the southwest of France after spending 40 days without clocks, phones, or sunlight for a human isolation experiment. The group of eight men and seven ...

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 ...

French artist JR, popular for his large-scale projects from photographs to graffiti and street art, wants Parisians to do something unusual.

A reader once asked me if I were to bring a spry, 73-year-old grandmother to Europe, where would I go? My response: France’s Dordogne River Valley. A reader once asked me if I were to bring a spry, 73 ...

In September of 1940, a 18-year-old young man called Marcel Ravidat discovered a cave thanks to his dog. What started as a simple moment in the forest ended ...

To reach the only place in the world where cave paintings of prehistoric marine life have been found, archaeologists have to dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean off southern France. Then they have ...

A reader once asked me: If I were to bring a spry, 73-year-old grandmother to Europe, where would I go? My response: France's Dordogne River Valley. I'd take her for a lazy canoe ride down the river, ...