Race Against Time to Save the 33,000-Year-Old Underwater Cosquer Cave
Archaeologists have raced to create a replica of the Cosquer Cave in France, before it is lost to the tide.
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Archaeologists have raced to create a replica of the Cosquer Cave in France, before it is lost to the tide.
To get to the 30,000-year-old paintings, archaeologists first have to dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean near Marseille, before navigating a 450ft tunnel to reach a huge cavern.
Climate change and pollution are threatening to wash away the art prehistoric men and women created over 15 millennia.
Archaeologists and divers are working to preserve and record the Palaeolithic paintings and engravings, as a new replica exhibition opens this week
To reach the only place in the world where cave paintings of prehistoric marine life have been found, archaeologists have to dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean off southern France.