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Fluorescent Glow Reveals Hidden Glaze on Chauvet Cave’s Ancient Art


Some of the oldest drawings known to humanity, made roughly 37,000 years ago in France’s Chauvet Cave, are covered by a thin, translucent film of calcite that cannot be seen with the naked eye.

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