000yearold Cat Found Nazca Lines Peru
The feline is about 37m long the figure of a relaxing cat has been discovered in the nazca desert in peru.
000yearold cat found nazca lines peru. A photo released by. It measures 121 feet across and is. Stretching for approx 50 miles between the towns of nazca and palpa the area is a unesco world heritage site.
Peruvian archaeologists have uncovered an enormous cat etched into a hillside in the desert of the famed nazca lines. The nazca lines a unesco world heritage site is home to designs on the ground known as. Cnn archeologists in peru have discovered another nazca lines figure.
2000 year old cat etching found at nazca lines site in peru the cat etching is believed to be older than any of the prehistoric geoglyphs previously unearthed at nazca. 2000 year old cat etching found at nazca lines site in peru archaeologists came across the faded feline outline while conducting maintenance work at the unesco heritage site. 2000 year old cat etching found at nazca lines site in peru.
Situated south of perus capital city lima the nazca lines were crafted over hundreds of years. New york times october 20 2020 102838 am. As the times reports it was discovered in 1927 by native history hunter toribio mejia xesspe.
Home to the geoglyphs of a hummingbird a monkey a spider and a human the. This time a drawing of a huge cat was found carved into a hillside in southern peru. A photo provided by perus ministry of culture nasca palpa shows the figure of a feline on a hillside in nazca peru oct 9 2020.
Located in a desert in southern peru nazca lines is an incredible triumph that shows the creativity of prehistoric tribes. By jessica stewart on october 20 2020. The collection of geoglyphslarge designsmade in the soil date from 500 bce to 500 ce and new work is constantly being uncovered.