Long before Stonehenge was built, well before the Dead Sea Scrolls were written, ancient artists painted life-sized figures on canyon walls in Utah, USA -- but why? Nobody is sure. The entire panel of figures, which dates back about 7,000 years, is called the Great Gallery and was found on the walls of Horseshoe Canyon in Canyonlands National Park. The humans who painted them likely hunted Mammoths. The unusual fuzziness of largest figure led to this mural section's informal designation as the Holy Ghost Panel, although the intended attribution and societal importance of the figure are really unknown. The above image was taken during a clear night in March. The oldest objects in the above image are not the pictographs, however, but the stars of our Milky Way Galaxy far in the background, some of which are billions of years old.
Crédito: NASA, APOD Los humanos que pintaron estos dibujos probablemente cazaban mamuts. La nubosidad inusual del figura más grande llevó a designar informalmente a esta sección del mural como el Panel del Espíritu Santo, aunque la atribución intencionada y la importancia social de la figura realmente son desconocidas. La imagen superior fue tomada durante una noche clara en marzo. Los objetos más antiguos en la imagen superior no son los pictogramas, sin embargo, sino las estrellas de nuestra galaxia Vía Láctea en el fondo, algunas de las cuales tienen miles de millones de años.
