The Western Australian Murujuga landscape of more than a million pieces of Indigenous rock art, some as old as 50,000 years, was inscribed on the world heritage list on Friday after a lobbying campaign by the Australian government persuaded a 21-country committee that nearby industrial emissions were not eroding the rocks.
At a meeting of the world heritage committee in Paris, the Murujuga cultural landscape was acknowledged as a “manifestation of creative genius, inscribed in the landscape since deep time”.
