Thursday, January 03, 2008

Mould enveloping cave paintings?

Thanks East Texas Red for sending me the link to this article about grey and black mould destroying the cave paintings at Lascaux, the so-called "Sistine Chapel of Prehistory". It seems an air circulation system, installed to protect the images, may be to blame.

2 comments:

Gardenia said...

Another case of man not being able to leave things well enough alone!

FOUR DINNERS said...

Figures. We really can't get anything right can we?