Her father, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, looked up. It was 1879 and he was making his second visit to the Cave of Altamira on the northern coast of Spain when he suddenly realized that these weren’t ...

ALTAMIRA CAVE, Spain — Five visitors stand in the bright daylight outside the extraordinary cave. A guide switches off the yellow floor lights and slams the heavy metal door, sealing the ...

Yesterday, five members of the public who entered a draw were given a guided tour of the extraordinary prehistoric paintings within the Altamira cave in northern Spain. The vivid images ...

The cave of Altamira in Spain was used by humans roughly 36,000 to 13,000 years ago, according to the Bradshaw Foundation.

But so do its travails, as José A. Lasheras, the director of the museum and cave of Altamira in Spain, acknowledges. “Altamira had the great luck that Lascaux had problems before we did,” he ...

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