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A giant cat, recorded more than 2,000 years ago, was discovered in the desert of the “Nazca Lines” area in Peru, during works to modernize the access road to the area, writes The Guardian.
The Nazca Lines, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, are made up of hundreds of zoomorphic images and cover some 450 square kilometers of the arid coastal plain of Peru.
“The engraving was barely visible and was about to disappear because it was on a steep slope, prone to the effects of natural erosion,” said the Ministry of Culture of Peru.
According to the team that made the discovery, the cat is 37 meters long, with well-defined lines, ranging from 30 cm to 40 cm wide.
“It is surprising that we are still finding new figures, but we also know that there is still a lot to find,” Johny Isla, chief archaeologist, told the Spanish news agency Efe. “In recent years, the use of drones has allowed us to discover these types of images in the hills,” he added.
The sands of southern Peru, engraved centuries ago with geoglyphs of a hummingbird, a monkey, an orc, have now revealed the shape of a huge cat.
Editor: Iulia Iancu
