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Ancient Geoglyph Damaged by Border Wall Contractors, Archaeologists Say

Researchers say the 272-foot carving is at least 6,500 years old as CBP reviews construction protocols after the site was inadvertently disturbed.

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An ancient geoglyph that the Tohono O'odham tribe considers a sacred site was reportedly damaged by federal contractors building a secondary border wall in southern Arizona.

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Trump’s border wall construction cut into an ancient ground carving older than Stonehenge

The Las Playas intaglio carving of a huge fish is at least two thousand years older than the first Egyptian pyramid, according to researchers’ recent estimations.

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Construction of a border wall between the US and Mexico has severely damaged an ancient drawing in the ground in Arizona that researchers estimate is at least 6,500 years old.

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