An Underwater Cave Was Sealed for 30,000 Years — What They Found Inside Shouldn't Exist

An Underwater Cave Was Sealed for 30,000 Years — What They Found Inside Shouldn't Exist In 1985, a diver near Marseille slipped into a crack in the cliffs 37 meters under the sea and found a tunnel leading to the Cosquer Cave, the only known decorated ice age cave whose entrance now lies below the sea. Inside are hand stencils with missing fingers, seals, great auks, a seal headed figure known as the killed man, and art made by two groups around 8,000 years apart. You'll learn how the cave ended up underwater, how radiocarbon dating proved it wasn't a hoax, why four fifths of it is already lost, and how a full replica in Marseille now preserves what the rising sea is erasing. #CosquerCave #IceAge #CaveArt #Archaeology #UnderwaterDiscovery #AncientHistory Cosquer Cave, Grotte Cosquer, Henri Cosquer, underwater cave, ice age cave art, prehistoric cave paintings, Paleolithic art, cave paintings France, Marseille, Calanques, great auk, hand stencils, missing fingers hand stencils, Jean Clottes, Jean Courtin, radiocarbon dating, sea level rise, Cosquer Mediterranee, Chauvet Cave, Lascaux, archaeology documentary, ancient discovery, history documentary