Scientists who were studying the countryside near the municipality of Tanum in the province of Bohuslan along the west coast of Sweden discovered about 40 petroglyphs that were carved into the surface of a rock.. The age of the find is estimated at 2700 years, according to Ancient origins..

The length of the section of the rock on which the drawings were found is 15 meters.. They include several unusual figures, including a ship almost two meters long and a stylized human figure about a meter high..

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The hillside on which the ancient artists created these masterpieces is located in the remote parish of Quill, hence the name of the striking set of images is the Quill petroglyphs.. They are located near the Tanum petroglyphs, which cover 51 hectares of rocky plateau and consist of more than 600 individual panels, which in total represent thousands of images..

The slope of the hill on which the drawings were found was hidden by a layer of moss until recently, so no one knew about the existence of petroglyphs. However, while exploring the ground next to the hillside, a team of archaeologists from the Bohuslan Rock Documentation Foundation noticed what appeared to be white markings peeking through a layer of moss..

When the scientists began to scrape off the moss, they discovered an image of a ship. As the researchers cleaned off the moss, they uncovered more and more images.. In total, they found about 40 individual figurines, lined up one after the other, as if they were supposed to tell some kind of narrative story.. The set of petroglyphs included 13 ships, nine horses, seven people and four chariots, suggesting that this was a description of how ancient artists traveled and explored the world around them..

Important in the discovery is also the fact that the drawings are located at a height of several meters above the ground.. That is, they cannot be drawn from a normal standing position.. According to scientists, ancient artists carved the drawings while standing on the deck of a boat when sea levels were higher than today..

Earlier, archaeologists discovered a stone disc in the Mayan cult site of Chichen Itza in southern Mexico that described a traditional ball game.. This sport, known as pelota (" According to archaeologists, the found artifact describes a match that was played 1100 years ago..