LOS ANGELES – During the last ice age, 25,000 years ago, a man – or woman – painted spotted horses on the walls of caves at what is now Pech Merle, France. Scholars still argue about why. Did this ...

1. In 1889, the legendary Orient Express began rail service to Constantinople from which European capital city? 2. Scientists are unsure of how or why the ancient geoglyphs were created at Nasca and ...

New DNA evidence revealed Monday shows that the spots on the horses depicted in the famous Pech Merle cave paintings are realistic, potentially changing our view of what the images mean. The horses in ...

Dotted horses in the cave of Pech Merle in France Scientists have found evidence that leopard-spotted horses roamed Europe 25,000 years ago alongside humans. Until now, studies had only recovered the ...

So I wrote an article last week on the (now notorious) discovery that a certain cave painting may be more realistic than previously assumed. To summarize: The research, published in PNAS, focused on a ...