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The Amazon rainforest has yielded one of the world’s most extensive specimens of fossil rock art. Archaeologists discovered tens of thousands of animal and human drawings on cliffs extending nearly 13 kilometers in the Colombian Amazon, earning it the moniker “Sistine Chapel of the Ancients.” Some of these works are over 12,500 years old, as shown by depictions of extinct Ice Age creatures (such as mastodons, and giants sloths). Any of the first humans to meet the Amazon saw and painted these creatures. His photos portray an ancient world that has since disappeared. The paintings are of such monumental size