Lascaux

The world famous prehistoric paintings in the caves of Lascaux, France, are threatened by black fungus.

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For some 17000 years these superb paintings survived without any problem. But they are barely surviving human interventions since their discovery in 1940. A symbol for our modern civilisation ?