The Straits Times·Asia

Wildfires threaten world’s oldest cave paintings

Summarised by Spiced Kopi · 23 October 2026, 06:33 UTC ·8 sec listen

Wildfires across Indonesia are putting ancient cave paintings on Sulawesi at risk. Heat and smoke could speed the damage to artworks believed to be more than 67,000 years old, among the oldest known in the world.

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