A team of British and Colombian archaeologists has made a spectacular discovery deep in the Amazon jungle: tens of thousands of paintings strewn across eight miles of cliff faces that date back to the last Ice Age.
The find is being described as “the Sistine Chapel of the ancients” — a trove of ancient paintings made in red ochre that offer a glimpse of a lost civilization.
Here & Now‘s Tonya Mosley speaks with Mark Robinson, a research fellow in the department of archaeology at the University of Exeter.
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