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(4,760 posts) Wed Dec 2, 2020, 08:14 AM Dec 2020

Prehistoric Rock Art discovered in the Amazon [View all]

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

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

The discovery was made last year, but has been kept secret until now as it was filmed for a major Channel 4 series to be screened in December: Jungle Mystery: Lost Kingdoms of the Amazon.

The site is in the Serranía de la Lindosa where, along with the Chiribiquete national park, other rock art had been found. The documentary’s presenter, Ella Al-Shamahi, an archaeologist and explorer, told the Observer: “The new site is so new, they haven’t even given it a name yet.”

Jungle Mystery: Lost Kingdoms of the Amazon," which will air in the U.K. on December 5.