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The Ica stone
collection It
is one of the most controversial collections of the last 40 years. It
consists of 11.000 carved volcanic stones, said to be found in the dried
rivers near the famous desert of Nazca. Other relics and thousands of
scurrile fi gures made of clay are said to be found in a secret and
subterranean. All the objects are in the private museum of Dr. Javier
Cabrera. The motives on the stones are very unusual and neither
geographical nor cultural classifi able. Many carvings show strange
landscapes, fl ora and fauna that were unknown in South America. The
collection got famous widely, although some scientists think that it is
a hoax. Some of the stones weight more than 200 kg. |