Chad’s ancient Ennedi cave paintings defaced
Ancient cave paintings at a world heritage site in the Sahara desert have been defaced with graffiti, Chad's minister of culture has told the BBC. The graffiti drawn on the paintings, which are about 8,000 years old, was "a tragedy... offensive to the whole history and memory of Chad," Mahamat Saleh Haroun said. Vandals scrawled their names on top of the artworks in French and Arabic. The Ennedi plateau was declared a […]
