30,000-Year-Old Work of Art in Australian Cave Destroyed by Vandals: ... the ancestors of Australia's Aboriginal Mirning people created art on the cave's chalk limestone walls about 30,000 years ago.

Vandals destroyed ancient aboriginal art in an Australian cave, officials say. Photo from Fiona Smallwood via Unsplash. Ancient cave paintings from up to 30,000 years ago were damaged beyond ...

Vandals broke in to Koonalda Cave in South Australia and wrote a prank message over 30,000 year old art Photo by the Mirning cultural group In Southern Australia, vandals have broken into Koonalda ...

Ancient South Australia cave art destroyed by vandals. Published. 21 December 2022. Share. close panel. ... £5,500) or up to six months in prison under South Australia's Aboriginal heritage laws.

Art dating back 22,000 years, which is sacred to Indigenous Australians, has been destroyed by vandals. Koonalda Caves hold great spiritual importance to Mirning people of Nullabor Plain.

In a flat, arid stretch of southern Australia, the Koonalda Cave is home to art that dates back 22,000 years – a sacred site for the indigenous Mirning People and a discovery that transformed ...

The exhibition of aboriginal cave paintings arranged by the News and Information Bureau at Australia House, London, and opened by the High Commissioner on January 15, does great credit to the ...

"It's abuse to our country and it's abuse to our history. What's gone is gone and we're never going to get it back." Indigenous groups in South Australia are heartbroken after cave art in one of ...

Koonalda Cave was the first place in Australia with indigenous rock art that could be dated back 22,000 years — upending the scientific community’s understanding of Australian history.

In a flat, arid stretch of southern Australia, the Koonalda Cave is home to art that dates back 22,000 years – a sacred site for the indigenous Mirning People and a discovery that transformed ...