Australia: 30,000 years old Aboriginal artwork destroyed by vandals

The world's oldest cave painting is decaying at a rapid pace due to climate change, archaeologists said, as experts race against time to find ways to preserve the priceless prehistorical artwork in Indonesia. Found in 2017, the painting in a limestone cave in Indonesia's island of Sulawesi appears to be the earliest known pictorial record of storytelling and thought to date back 45,500 years.

Archaeologists fear climate change slowly erasing world's oldest cave painting in Indonesia

Climate change is killing world's oldest animal cave painting in Sulawesi

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Australia: 30,000 years old Aboriginal artwork destroyed by vandals

Archaeologists fear climate change slowly erasing world's oldest cave painting in Indonesia

Climate change is killing world's oldest animal cave painting in Sulawesi