A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Sept. 12, 1940, the Lascaux cave paintings, estimated to be 17,000 years old, were discovered in southwestern ...

Modern humans first arrived in Europe 43,000 years ago during the last ice age. One of the areas where they took up residence was the Swabian Jura in southern Germany. Excavated from the 1860s, six ...

What children's cave art tells us about life 14,000 years ago. Ice-age children are behind some unusual drawings in the Las Monedas Cave in Spain, a new study claims.

BAYFIELD, WIS. – Walking atop a frozen stretch of Lake Superior's south shore, Jon Michels paused to look at a 30-foot-tall rippled ice wall cascading over a sandstone cliff cave. Then he noted ...

Cave art dates back 14,000 years. (Courtesy of Izzy Wisher/Gobierno de Cantabria) Ice-age children are behind some unusual drawings in the Las Monedas Cave in Spain, a new study claims.