Colombia: the Amazon jungle hides a prehistoric treasure
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The Amazon forest.
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By: Najet Benrabaa Follow
21 mins
Now let's go to Colombia for the Big report of the day.
We take you on a trip to the Amazon jungle.
Imagine that it hides a prehistoric treasure: dozens of cave painting walls that date, according to experts, to the Ice Age, that is to say more than 12,500 years.
There are said to be around 75,000 paintings.
It might even be the largest collection of cave paintings.
Some people already call it “the Sistine Chapel of prehistory”.
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Our correspondents in Colombia Najet Benrabaa and Sarah Nabli visited the Serrania Lindosa site, in east-central Colombia, in the middle of the Amazon rainforest.
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