Archaeologists fear climate change slowly erasing world's oldest cave painting in Indonesia
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Published: Jun 10, 2021, 04:33 IST | Updated: Jun 10, 2021, 04:33 IST
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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.
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