Word: lascaux
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...prehistoric Lascaux caves in France's Dordogne region were closed in 1963 because the presence of tourists was destroying the 17,000-year-old paintings on their walls. Now Lascaux II, a replica built nearby in 1983 to give visitors a sense of the Cro-Magnon artwork, has become so overcrowded that entry is limited to 2,000 a day. The great Cathedral of Notre Dame in the heart of Paris has yet to take such extreme measures, but it may soon have to: more than 11.5 million people visited the church last year to admire its Gothic architecture...
...actually seen rivulets of condensation running down the stained- glass windows," says Christian Dupavillon, director of patrimony for the French Ministry of Culture. Even the tourist industry is alarmed. "Will we have to create a Notre Dame II similar to the replica they were forced to build at Lascaux?" asked the trade daily Le Quotidien de Tourisme in an editorial...
...from her home among the Mammoth Hunters of the Eurasian steppes and, braving blizzards, a locust swarm and a fall into a glacier crevasse, reaches what is now the Dordogne, in southwest France. The region harbors a rich trove of ! Upper Paleolithic remains, including the mystically painted caverns. The Lascaux cave "overwhelms me," Auel says. "These weren't dumb savages...