A Japanese researcher has recently excavated a large relief depicting two jaguars from the ruins of a Peruvian temple built in about 750 B.C., The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
The relief is 2.8 meters high and is in a temple in the Huaca Partida ruins in northern Peru.
"It's the largest known relief dating from this ancient Andean civilization to show animals," said Koichiro Shibata, a researcher at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, who conducted the excavation.
This will probably make the news rounds more in the next few weeks.