Celtlund
12-08-2006, 03:19
How sad that someone would commit arson and this would be the result. Some people are just plain (1) stupid (2) sick (3) self serving. :mad:
Priceless art dating from the Stone Age has been damaged in forest fires -- some deliberately set -- in northwest Spain, officials said Friday.
Color paintings and carvings on rocks -- known as petroglyphs -- of wildlife and geometric patterns dating some 4,000 years, has been charred and blackened in fires in Campo Lameiro and Cotobade in northwestern Galicia, said local government spokeswoman Iria Mendez.
It is too early to determine if some of the art, considered national treasures, have been damaged beyond repair, Mendez said.
Hundreds of fires have raged through the heavily wooded northwestern corner of Spain in the last week, killing wildlife and roasting a countryside containing rare remains of early human habitation, such as the paintings.
Police have arrested 15 people this month -- nine in the last four days --
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/08/11/spain.fires.ap/index.html
Priceless art dating from the Stone Age has been damaged in forest fires -- some deliberately set -- in northwest Spain, officials said Friday.
Color paintings and carvings on rocks -- known as petroglyphs -- of wildlife and geometric patterns dating some 4,000 years, has been charred and blackened in fires in Campo Lameiro and Cotobade in northwestern Galicia, said local government spokeswoman Iria Mendez.
It is too early to determine if some of the art, considered national treasures, have been damaged beyond repair, Mendez said.
Hundreds of fires have raged through the heavily wooded northwestern corner of Spain in the last week, killing wildlife and roasting a countryside containing rare remains of early human habitation, such as the paintings.
Police have arrested 15 people this month -- nine in the last four days --
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/08/11/spain.fires.ap/index.html