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| Today's Independent* reports that - "Unesco, the world cultural body, has threatened to humiliate France by placing the Lascaux caves – known as the "Sistine Chapel of prehistory" – on its list of endangered sites of universal importance. "The Unesco world heritage committee, meeting this week in Quebec, has given the French government six months to report on the success of its efforts to save the Lascaux cave paintings in Dordogne from an ugly, and potentially destructive, invasion of grey and black fungi." "Unesco, the world cultural body, has threatened to humiliate France..." Take note of this English Heritage - re: your failures at Stonehenge and your waste of millions of pounds of public money there. * http://www.independent.co.uk/n[...]hs-to-save-lascaux-865819.html Reply | with quote |  12th July 2008ce 18:54 |
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