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'Sistine Chapel of the Ancients’ rock art discovered in remote Amazon forest

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  1. KingCheetah

    KingCheetah Atomic Playboy

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    'Sistine Chapel of the Ancients’ rock art discovered in remote Amazon forest

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    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.

    Their date is based partly on their depictions of now-extinct ice age animals, such as the mastodon, a prehistoric relative of the elephant that hasn’t roamed South America for at least 12,000 years. There are also images of the palaeolama, an extinct camelid, as well as giant sloths and ice age horses.

    https://amp.theguardian.com/science...s-rock-art-discovered-in-remote-amazon-forest
     
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    Way cooler than a giant triangular dildo in Utah.
     
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    This is seriously badass.
     
    #3 Buck Turgidson, Nov 29, 2020
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    I love this stuff. Eight miles of cave drawings that are possibly from thousands of years before the Egyptians. As scientists, they must be doing backflips.
     
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    Thank god they haven't clearcut it and burned it down already.
     
    #5 Buck Turgidson, Nov 30, 2020
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    Sadly, my first thought too.
     
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    so... jesus is still ok doe right?
     
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