Lascaux Caves is Shut For Future Preservation

Despite being named a UNESCO heritage site, the French destination of Lascaux Caves remains an inaccessible region. Home to prehistoric art works from the Paleolithic age, they depict various animals like stags, cattle, and bisons which are pretty useful when it comes to the study of early humans.

Due to archaeologists’s belief that human contact might spoil the paintings, in 1963, it was decided that these caves will remain shut for general public. In the past six decades, the area has been largely free from all sorts of fungal invasions, and is visited only by few security guards every week!