What are these swirly lines?

Scientists took photos of the cave art. They used the photos to make a model of the cave. (Alan Cressler)
This is a drawing of a person. (photo by S. Alvarez; illustration by J. Simek)
This is a drawing of a snake. (photo by S. Alvarez; illustration by J. Simek)
The drawings were hard to see. The scans made the art clear. (photo by S. Alvarez; illustration by J. Simek)
The cave ceiling is very low. The artists probably had to lie on their backs to draw. (photo by S. Alvarez; illustration by J. Simek)

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They are drawings! Native people from long ago made them inside a cave. Cave art experts used 3-D scans to find them

There are 2 snake and 3 human drawings. How did the artists do that?

Pray: God’s word is far older than these cave drawings. Thank God that His word tells us of His unending love for us!

Read More: The artwork is from over 1,000 years ago. It is in the “19th Unnamed Cave” in Alabama. (The cave is called that to hide it from vandals.) The drawings are the largest of their kind discovered in North America so far. Researchers Alan Cressler, Jan Simek, and Stephen Alvarez used photogrammetry. That means they made a 3-D model from many pictures. They took 16,000 images of the art. They think artists lay on their backs to draw and someone else held a torch for light. Read about a cave in 1 Samuel 22:1-2. So many people lived with David there.