Ingá stone
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Ingá, Paraíba
Ingá is a town and municipality in the state of Paraíba in the Northeast Region of Brazil.A notable landmark of Ingá is the Ingá Stone, a rock with huge pre-Columbian inscriptions which are still undeciphered.-References:...
, 96km from João Pessoa, in Paraíba
Paraíba
Paraíba Paraíba Paraíba (Tupi: pa'ra a'íba: "bad to navigation"; Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: is a state of Brazil. It is located in the Brazilian Northeast, and is bordered by Rio Grande do Norte to the north, Ceará to the west, Pernambuco to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the east...
State in the northeast of Brazil
Brazil
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. The Ingá Stone is also called Itacoatiara do Ingá. The word Itacoatiara means stone in the Tupi language of the natives that lived in that area.
It is composed of some basalt stones covered with symbols and glyphs undeciphered until now. Scholars think it was created by natives that lived in the area until the 18th century.
Most glyphs represent animals, fruits, humans, constellations (including the Milky Way
Milky Way
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), and other unrecognizable images.