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Archaeologists came here through the definition of faded feline maintenance paintings on the UNESCO Heritage site.
By Tiffany May
The image, which stretches for 40 meters on a hill in Peru, shows a creature with pointed ears, orb-shaped eyes and a long striped tail, turns out to be a staying cat, as cats do.
Archaeologists have come across faded engraving by transforming a segment of a UNESCO heritage known as the Nazca Lines, Peru’s Ministry of Culture announced last week.
The feline geoglyph, which experts say dates back to 200 BC. at 100 a. C. es the most recent discovery among animal sculptures and plants larger than life in the past discovered between the villages of Nazca and Palpa, on a desert plain about 250 miles southeast of the capital, Lima.
“The discovery shows, once again, the diverse cultural heritage of this site,” the ministry said in a statement.
The Nazca Lines were first discovered through a Peruvian aerial surveyor in 1927. On the site were found images of a hummingbird, a monkey and an orca. UNESCO has designated the Nasca and Palpa lines and geoglyphs as a World Heritage Site since 1994.
It is the idea that the engraving of the cat is older than all the prehistoric geoglyphs found in the past in Nazca.
“It is striking that we are still locating new figures, but we also know that there is more to be found,” Johny Isla, the leading archaeologist on the Nazca lines in Peru, told Efe.
It is idea that the drawings were created when the ancient Peruvians scraped a layer of dark and rocky soil, which contrasts with lighter colored sand below. Researchers that numbers were once used as travel markers.
Drone photography has led to several discoveries in years, mr. In 2019, Japanese researchers, with the help of satellite photographs and three-dimensional images, have unearthed more than 140 new geoglyphs on the site.
Research and conservation paintings continued at the site, including the coronavirus pandemic, when the maximum tourist sites were closed. Archaeologists and staff ran at the Natural Viewpoint, a viewpoint on the protected site, when they began to dig up something intriguing. emerged the transparent lines of the mound that appeared as the meandering body of a cat.
“The figure was slightly visual and about to disappear, as it is located on a steep slope, prone to the effects of herb erosion,” the Ministry of Culture said in a statement.
The government stated that even a lost footprint could spoil fragile land and imposed strict regulations against illegal entry to the site. Before the pandemic ended, visitors could see the lines and figures from airplanes and points of view.
But riots broke out on the Nazca lines, prompting the conviction.
In 2014, Greenpeace activists left shoe marks alongside a giant hummingbird design when they placed a signal selling renewable energy, Peruvian said.
“You walk there and the footprint will last many or thousands of years,” Luis Jaime Castillo, a Peruvian official and archaeologist, told the Guardian at the time. “And the line they destroyed is the visual and identified maxim of all. “
In 2018, a driving force of a truck was arrested after deliberately driving its tractor-trailer on 3 lines of geoglyphs.
Even as Peru strives to maintain its ancient sites, the government reopened Machu Picchu this month for a lucky tourist after he was stranded by the pandemic and waited seven months to see the 16th-century Inca citadel.
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