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"Prehistoric Sistine Chapel" gets World Heritage status
Topic Started: Jun 23 2014, 09:49 PM (449 Views)
CJ
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27978440

A cave in southern France dubbed the "prehistoric Sistine Chapel" has been added to Unesco's World Heritage list.

The 1,000 drawings carved in the walls of the Decorated Cave of Pont d'Arc, or Grotte Chauvet, are 36,000 years old and include mammoths and hand prints.

Cave experts only discovered it in 1994 as the entrance had been concealed by a rockfall 23,000 years earlier.

It was one of several cultural and natural wonders granted the status by a committee of delegates in Doha, Qatar.

UN cultural agency Unesco said the cave, located in the Ardeche region of France featured "the earliest and best-preserved expressions of artistic creation of the Aurignacian people", who were believed to be the first modern human culture in Europe.



Wow. Given the how old, numerous and well-preserved these paintings are, I'm very surprised that the cave wasn't on the World Heritage list already!
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What's a world heritage status?
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It means that UNESCO have designated it as a World Heritage Site, due to its cultural or physical significance:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO_World_Heritage_Site
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How would there be paintings of bison and rhino? Am I missing something?
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Jun 24 2014, 05:31 PM
It means that UNESCO have designated it as a World Heritage Site, due to its cultural or physical significance:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO_World_Heritage_Site
Why? No one can enter except researchers...
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That's not unprecedented, actually. The volcanic island of Surtsey is another UNESCO World Heritage site that can only be visited by researchers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surtsey
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A 'world heritage' site that the whole world us cut off from... What a strange thing to say :P
Edited by Giselle, Jun 25 2014, 05:05 PM.
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Well, the original is still cut off, but France has just completed a giant replica of the cave, which will be open to tourists:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32248963
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