Race to save undersea Stone Age cave art masterpiecesAFP, MARSEILLETo reach the only place in the world where cave paintings of prehistoric marine life have been found, archaeologists have to dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean off southern France. Archaeologist Luc Vanrell’s life changed the second he surfaced inside the Cosquer cavern and saw its staggering images. Climate change and water and plastic pollution are threatening to wash away the art prehistoric men and women created over 15 millennia. An almost life-sized recreation of the Cosquer cavern will open this week a few kilometers away in Marseille. “And because the cave walls that are today underwater were probably also once decorated, nothing else in Europe compares to its size,” he added.

Source: Taipei Times May 31, 2022 05:16 UTC