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2,000-Year-Old Cat Etching Found at Nazca Lines Site in Peru
NY Times ^ | October 19, 2020 | Tiffany May

Posted on 10/19/2020 9:12:18 AM PDT by C19fan

The image, stretching for 40 yards on a hillside in Peru, shows a creature with pointy ears, orb-like eyes and a long striped tail. It appears to be a cat lounging, as cats often do.

Archaeologists stumbled across the faded etching while remodeling a section of a UNESCO heritage site known as the Nazca Lines, Peru’s Ministry of Culture announced last week.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: History; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: cats; godsgravesglyphs; nazcalines; peru
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Aliens enjoy cats too.........
1 posted on 10/19/2020 9:12:18 AM PDT by C19fan
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Doesn’t matter the media... people like their cat pics...


2 posted on 10/19/2020 9:15:03 AM PDT by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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3 posted on 10/19/2020 9:15:10 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: C19fan

cats are aliens!


4 posted on 10/19/2020 9:15:22 AM PDT by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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5 posted on 10/19/2020 9:16:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: C19fan

Yes ALF liked them breaded with a lemon-based marinade.


6 posted on 10/19/2020 9:16:34 AM PDT by Reily
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I wouldn't call it their best work. And as for "just discovered" they sure got those rampways up quickly.


7 posted on 10/19/2020 9:20:54 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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Reminds me of the Uffington White Horse.


8 posted on 10/19/2020 9:23:33 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Sirius Lee

Well, now we know who ruled their culture. No surprise here.


9 posted on 10/19/2020 9:25:38 AM PDT by Noumenon ("Only the dead have seen an end to war." - Plato)
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To: Reily

10 posted on 10/19/2020 9:28:08 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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+1.

PS I hate you. ;-)

11 posted on 10/19/2020 9:28:51 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: C19fan

Looks like a gag.


12 posted on 10/19/2020 9:28:51 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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at least 9,600 years old in cat years


13 posted on 10/19/2020 9:32:21 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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Does it appear in older satellite imagery (decades old)?


14 posted on 10/19/2020 9:33:31 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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Stumbled upon? Faint lines? Yeah that’s the ticket, what a bunch of malarkey, with all the areal surveys of Nazca over the years and this was just now with a path and hand rails no less.


15 posted on 10/19/2020 9:36:40 AM PDT by Mastador1
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To: Sirius Lee

How could they have possible missed that for so long?


16 posted on 10/19/2020 9:38:59 AM PDT by bwest
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*possibly


17 posted on 10/19/2020 9:41:50 AM PDT by bwest
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Some talented cat!

18 posted on 10/19/2020 9:57:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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19 posted on 10/19/2020 9:59:15 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: C19fan

Why are cats making etchings?


20 posted on 10/19/2020 9:59:31 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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