How were the ancient murals in undersea caves discovered?

Several amateur French cave explorers found a very beautiful underwater cave mural in Surmiu, a beautiful bay in the Mediterranean. On this mural, a * * * painted six wild horses, two birds, two bison, 1 goat, 1 cat, 1 deer. The animal images above are extremely vivid and are treasures of ancient art, and the discovery of this underwater cave mural is even more amazing.

1990, French amateur cave explorer Henry? Cosker found a tunnel entrance at a depth of 36 meters. With the help of their companions, they entered and successfully passed the tunnel about 200 meters long. When they surfaced, an amazing spectacle appeared in front of them: in this cave with an altitude of 4 meters and a diameter of about 50 meters, there were all kinds of stalactites, three clearly visible handprints on the stone wall, and many lifelike animal murals. Cosker immediately felt that he had entered the art palace. While being surprised by this, they also have their own feelings: Are these murals the works of prehistoric artists, or are some people deliberately playing pranks? Unable to judge the truth, they decided to keep it a secret for the time being.

199 1 On September 3rd, Cosker reported his findings to the Institute of Marine Archaeology in Marseille, and asked the government to take corresponding protection measures for these murals. 15 September, Cosker and prehistoric archaeologist Jean? Gul's frank underwater expedition dived into the undersea cave and studied the murals in the cave with modern analytical instruments. It is preliminarily believed that the murals in the caves were probably completed by prehistoric artists with black charcoal and red clay, with a history of more than 654.38+0 million years. According to Gultan's analysis, the handprint on the stone wall may be a masterpiece of prehistoric artists who mixed colored mineral powder with animal fat to make oil painting pigments, then put their hands on the stone wall and blew the oil painting pigments on the stone wall with hollow animal bones.

But what is puzzling is, how did prehistoric artists dive into such an underwater cave more than ten thousand years ago? And how are these murals miraculously preserved after a long period of seawater immersion? Some archaeologists explained that 1000 years ago was the end of the ice age, and the sea level in the Mediterranean was 100 meters lower than today, and the underwater tunnel in Surmiu Bay was undoubtedly above sea level at that time, so people could easily enter the cave from the tunnel mouth under the cliff. Later, after the end of the ice age, the sea level rose, flooded the tunnel, sealed the cave, and the murals in the cave avoided weathering and destruction, and have been preserved to this day.

However, some people think that these murals are so well preserved that they can't have been painted 1 10,000 years ago. The fact that prehistoric people lived here 1 10,000 years ago is also very doubtful. Because the remains of prehistoric humans have never been found here, these murals are probably forged by later generations.

Either way, there is no effective evidence to support and explain, and the ancient murals in underwater caves have become a mystery.