But cave art isn't just a relic of the past ... Ra Paulette has devoted his life to hand-carving majestic, meditative cave sanctuaries. Since the 1990s, Paulette has sculpted these sandstone ...

Its walls exhibit three distinctive styles of cave art linked to a hunter-gatherer ... Today, the Cave of the Hands, an official UNESCO World Heritage Site stands as one of the most significant ...

One hypothesis is that the art is reflects "sympathetic magic," a ritual aimed at bringing good luck to the hunters. The true significance of these magnificent cave paintings at Lascaux and ...

Artists have recreated fragments of the paintings inside the museum ... Over a period of two years, 25 artists hand-painted 900 metres of faux cave, using the same pigments as those used by ...

This was also in accord with the age of pottery fragments ancient artists left in the cave. The problem is seeing the paintings. The cave ceiling is only 60cm high, which makes stepping back to ...