Skip to comments.
Vandals destroy 8,000-year-old artwork
thinkSPAINtoday ^
| Tuesday, August 7, 2007
| Samantha Kett
Posted on 08/08/2007 8:34:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Fluorescent yellow paint was sprayed over carvings, thought to be around 8,000 years old, inside the Cova de la Clau in Palma de Gandia, last week. However, they left a 16,000-year-old engraving of a horse in the Cova del Parpallo untouched... Some of the carvings, which were discovered in 2001, have been removed and are held in various museums throughout the province, but those that remain have been declared UNESCO heritage sites. This is not the first time prehistoric engravings in La Safor caves have been under threat from vandals. Three years ago, graffiti was found in the Cova del Parpallo, but it had not covered the rock art. A year previously, dirty blankets and hypodermic needles were found inside the same cave. Four years ago, the Cova de les Meravelles ('cave of wonders') in Gandia and the Cova del Bolomor in Tavernes de la Valldigna suffered damage, their Paleolithic carvings destroyed by graffiti... Fences that are easy to break down or climb over, and broken padlocks, are all that keep undesirables out.
(Excerpt) Read more at thinkspain.com ...
TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs
Obviously this is the work of the Cova del Parpallo liberation front.
1
posted on
08/08/2007 8:34:43 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: blam; FairOpinion; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; 49th; ...
2
posted on
08/08/2007 8:35:07 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Profile updated Tuesday, August 7, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: SunkenCiv
Call me stupid...but I just don't
get vandalism.
It has no point!
3
posted on
08/08/2007 8:37:16 AM PDT
by
bannie
(The Good Guys cannot win when they're the only ones to play by the rules.)
To: bannie
Some regimes find ancient art an affront to Islam:
4
posted on
08/08/2007 8:39:26 AM PDT
by
weegee
(NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
To: weegee
That was my first thought too, I figured the jihadists were blowing up more things that “offended” them.
5
posted on
08/08/2007 8:41:10 AM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: SunkenCiv
In my younger days, I could not understand why so many Roman and Greek status were vandalized. In some ways, I still do not.
Seeing the Taliban in Afgan in 2001 destroy the very old Buddas does open a view into the soul on these really awful people who enjoy destroying others work.
Very sad.
6
posted on
08/08/2007 8:43:58 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: SunkenCiv
7
posted on
08/08/2007 8:57:50 AM PDT
by
Eaker
(If illegal immigrants were so great for an economy; Mexico would be building a wall to keep them in)
To: weegee
8
posted on
08/08/2007 9:08:13 AM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: SunkenCiv
Just like stupid young EU nuts. They have also vandalizes many of the walls in Pompeii and other Roman and Greek ruins. It is a shame but they know no better or should we say that they are just totally stupid as some here in my great country are. A vandal is a vandal and some should be eliminated.
9
posted on
08/08/2007 9:29:16 AM PDT
by
YOUGOTIT
(The Greatest Threat to our Security is the US Senate)
To: bannie
It can be a form of censorship by those whose ideologies are, shall we say, a bit insecure...
To: SunkenCiv
My God, the Vandals are back in Spain after centuries. Where have they been hiding all this time?
11
posted on
08/08/2007 3:07:29 PM PDT
by
wildbill
To: LachlanMinnesota
Thank you...I guess that makes a sick kind of sense.
12
posted on
08/08/2007 5:48:07 PM PDT
by
bannie
(The Good Guys cannot win when they're the only ones to play by the rules.)
To: wildbill
Where have they been hiding all this time?IIRC they ended up in North Africa.
To: wildbill
North Africa and Arabia. ;’)
14
posted on
08/08/2007 9:38:07 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Profile updated Tuesday, August 7, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson