An ever popular tourist destination, Machu Picchu and its
trails are studied by thousands of eyes each year. Yet something still managed
to elude visitors and researchers until recently. Fifteen minutes walking
distance from the Inca citadel are new cave paintings.
They show the figures of
a man and a camelid-type animal, most likely a llama. Above them sits a
geometric glyph. Staff from Cuzco’s Cultural Department discovered the ancient
art when they were on one of the roads that lead to Machu Picchu.In the same
area, that of Pachamama, four graves were located in 1912 when Hiram Bingham,
the man who found the Inca city, returned during a second expedition.
His
records never mentioned the black rock paintings, so it’s assumed that he never
saw them. Researchers still need to agree about the age, but there’s an
exciting possibility that the artist was pre-Inca
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