The thousand-year-old mystery of the giant snake found in drawings across the world
Archaeologists have discovered one of the world’s largest collections of ancient art, showing giants and monsters walking the Earth.
In a remote area of South America, a British-led research team has discovered more than a thousand prehistoric engravings – including the world’s largest examples of prehistoric rock art. However, the archaeologists believe that the examples found so far are only the “tip of a vast ancient artistic iceberg” – and that many more still await discovery.
It’s thought likely that the thousand-square-mile area (smaller than the English county of Dorset) may well contain around 10,000 ancient engravings. The largest discovered so far is a 43-metre-long engraving of a giant serpent. Others
