NAZCA LINES
Nazca Lines are the
most outstanding group of geoglyphs in the world. Etched in the surface of the desert pampa sand about 300 hundred
figures made of straight lines, geometric shapes and pictures of
animals and birds - and their patterns are only clearly visible from
the air.
They were designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994.
The high desert of Peru holds one of the most mystifying
monuments of the known world—the massive-scale geoglyphs known as
the Nasca Lines. Ranging from geometric patterns to “drawings” of
different animals and stylized human-like forms. The ancient lines
can only be truly taken in, their forms discerned, from high in
the air, leaving generations mystified as to how these precise
works could’ve been completed long before the documented invention
of human flight. Are the lines signs left by an alien race?
Landing strips for UFOs? Relics of a ancient people far more
advanced—capable of human flight—then previously imagined?
Etched, as if by giants, onto the arid moonscape of
Peru’s southern desert lies one of man’s greatest mysteries; the
Nasca Lines. More than 15,000 geometric and animal-like patterns
have been discovered criss-crossing the pampas like a vast puzzle.
Who built them and what was their purpose? Ancient racetracks,
landing strips for aliens, or perhaps a giant astronomical
calendar? And are the Lines connected to the gruesome discovery of
large cache’s of severed human heads. Now, after decades of
misunderstanding, modern archaeology may finally have the answer.
Excavations in the surrounding mountains are
uncovering extraordinary clues about the people who made them and
why. A long since vanished people, called the Nasca, flourished
here between 200BC and 700AD. But the harsh environment led them
to extreme measures in order to survive.
The lines are shallow designs made in the ground by removing the reddish
pebbles and uncovering the whitish/grayish ground beneath.
