Explore the 9 oldest-known archaeological sites, from Theopetra Cave to Göbekli Tepe, and Altamira. Dive into early human history and fascinating cave art.

September 2025 - 9 days for £5,395 per person. Embark on a captivating journey through time as you explore key Neanderthal ...

to cave paintings most notably at the Chauvet Cave in southeastern France. The cave boasts the earliest figurative cave painting in Europe, dating to 30,000-32,000 years ago. Discovered in 1994, it ...

The Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave in southeastern France is a jewel of prehistoric art. When it was discovered in December 1994, it amazed the world with its vivid cave paintings, believed to be over ...

A scene from Upper Paleolithic Chauvet cave, France ... “When prehistoric humans in Western Europe depicted large game in cave paintings, many of these animals were already extinct in the ...

The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southeastern France. For nearly a century, archaeologists have been perplexed by an enduring enigma: the conspicuous absence of cave paintings in the Levant ...

Why it's awesome: Deep inside one of Gabon's cave systems lives an unusual population of orange dwarf crocodiles. They live in complete darkness, feast on bats and swim in liquid guano (aka bat poop.) ...

The Ségognole 3 site, in Noisy-sur-École, is unique in combining figurative cave art with architectural interventions on the stone. These alterations not only served a practical purpose in controlling ...

From the most to least famous, these are ten great paintings dedicated to ancient Greek myths or containing references to them. 1. The Birth of Venus Sandro Botticelli, the great Italian painter of ...

The book also includes facsimiles of 19 Buddhist paintings from the Library Cave, or Cave 17 of the Mogao Caves, that are housed overseas. Fan Jinshi, honorary director of the Dunhuang Academy ...

A woman has been rescued after becoming trapped in an Italian cave system for the second time in two years. Ottavia Piana fell around five metres inside an uncharted portion of the cave system and ...