Ghastly secret faces hidden for 2,000 years uncovered by Amazon drought

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video The Amazon River is suffering from a devastating drought at the moment. But with the waterway dropping to levels never seen before, some of its ancient secrets are being revealed. Archaeologists have been examining human faces that were sculpted into the stone up to 2,000 years ago.

’ The carvings are between 1,000 and 2,000 years old The presence of the carvings was known, but the drought has uncovered new ones The carvings were found during the ongoing drought in Manaus in Amazonas state, Brazil Archaeologists have swarmed to the rocky outcrop that was exposed by the drought They may hold the key to how long humans have been settled in the area The rocky point is called Ponto das Lajes on the north shore of the Amazon near where the Rio Negro and Solimoes rivers join.

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