The museum believes these are lions, but they also look like barking dogs within dogs (they’re wearing collars). On a wool carpet made in Anatolia, Turkey, in the 14th century.
A group of these early animal rugs started appearing on the antiques market in the 1990s from Tibet, where they are believed to have been traded from Anatolia in early times. Anatolian animal rugs were also popular in Europe during the 14th-15th centuries and appear in European paintings.
Dozens of circular geoglyphs, some comprising several intertwined rings, have been identified and mapped near the ancient Peruvian town of Quilcapampa, revealing that these earthen designs were created near ancient pathways used for trade.
Geoglyphs are designs, which often form shapes or images, on the landscape. They are found all over the world; the most famous examples are located at Nazca, where thousands of such designs — from real and imaginary creatures to geometric shapes — have been etched into the Peruvian desert.
The newly mapped geoglyphs may have had symbolic significance, possibly representing the flow of people and goods through the town at the time, according to Justin Jennings, a curator at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto who is one of the team leaders. Read more.
