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The Guardian: Giant Cat Geoglyph Found Among Nazca Lines in Peru

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cameron

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www.theguardian.com

Huge cat found etched into desert among Nazca Lines in Peru

Feline geoglyph from 200-100BC emerges during work at Unesco world heritage site
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The feline Nazca line, dated to between 200BC and 100BC, emerged during work to improve access to one of the hills that provides a natural vantage point from which many of the designs can be seen.

A Unesco world heritage site since 1994, the Nazca Lines, which are made up of hundreds of geometric and zoomorphic images, were created by removing rocks and earth to reveal the contrasting materials below. They lie 250 miles (400km) south of Lima and cover about 450 sq km (175 sq miles) of Peru's arid coastal plain.
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"The figure was scarcely visible and was about to disappear because it's situated on quite a steep slope that's prone to the effects of natural erosion," Peru's culture ministry said in a statement this week.

"Over the past week, the geoglyph was cleaned and conserved, and shows a feline figure in profile, with its head facing the front." It said the cat was 37 metres long, with well-defined lines that varied in width between 30cm and 40cm.

"It's quite striking that we're still finding new figures, but we also know that there are more to be found," Johny Isla, Peru's chief archaeologist for the lines, told the Spanish news agency Efe.
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Aran

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Oct 28, 2017
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Love stuff like this. It's insane that we have yet to discover all the figures.
 
.exe

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Oct 25, 2017
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Aww, big kitty! Amazing that they can still find this stuff after so long.
 
Lucreto

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From the image it looks like someone broke in to the site and made there own like those poor restored pictures.


Then when I read it I was surprised it was authentic.
 
ps3ud0

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Oct 27, 2017
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Neil Bunchanan has a lot to answer for...

Actually it's an amazing thing to comprehend how such a feat was achieved so long ago and probably needed lots of co-ordination.

ps3ud0 8)
 
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