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Colombia | "Sistine Chapel of the ancients": tens of thousands of rock paintings found in Amazon

One of the world’s largest collections of prehistoric rock art has been discovered in the Amazonian rainforest.


Hailed as “the Sistine Chapel of the ancients”, archaeologists have found tens of thousands of paintings of animals and humans created up to 12,500 years ago across cliff faces that stretch across nearly eight miles in Colombia.


https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/nov/29/sistine-chapel-of-the-ancients-rock-art-discovered-in-remote-amazon-forest

 
 
 

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