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🌟The Bright Side: 3,000-year-old mural depicting fish, stars and plants discovered in Peru
Peruvian archaeologists announced on Tuesday that they had discovered a pre-Hispanic mural dating back more than 3,000 years in the north of the country.
The work was discovered inside a temple at the Huaca Yolanda archaeological site, around 580 km north of the Peruvian capital, Lima.
Ana Cecilia Mauricio, director of the excavations at the site and a researcher at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, told AFP that the sculpture"has characteristics that are unique in Peruvian archaeology."
The mural, more than five metres long and two metres high, depicts fish, stars, fishing nets and plants.
"We had never before found iconography or drawings of this type," explained Mauricio.
"This discovery (...) reveals the historical and cultural wealth of the Peruvian people," she added.
The mural's good state of conservation is due to it having been buried by the same people who constructed it, to build another space on top – a common practice among ancient Peruvian civilisations.
"Although more excavations are needed to know the full dimensions of the wall, there is a very good chance that not only the wall, but the entire environment where it is located is intact, ' explained the archaeologist to Peru's News Agency Andina.
