Trump’s border wall construction threatens rock art as old as the pyramids: ‘The ancestors are still here’

The president’s border wall plan could damage or destroy ‘the oldest-known books in North America’ On an overcast summer morning, Carolyn Boyd, an archeologist at Texas State University, stood at the foot of a cave in west Texas, looking up toward a series of towering murals painted on a rock wall. Three massive human-like figures soared toward an overhang that had sheltered the painting from the elements since they were drawn here perhaps 4,000 years ago. An artist herself, Boyd knows how hard…