| Welcome To The Nazca Mystery & One Of The Last Great
Wonders Of The World
Centuries ago, the desert floors, hills, and mountains of
Pacific Coastal South America were covered by vast networks
of drawings: lines and geometric shapes, figures of mammals,
insects, and deities. The Nazca Lines, discovered in 1927,
are the most extraordinary legacy left by a culture that
flourished over 2,000 years ago. These lines, and other
geoglyphs, are a series of complex designs, some miles long,
which can only be seen in their true dimension from the sky.
The pre-Columbian Nazca culture is not believed to have been
capable of flight, but the question still remains as to how
they crafted the drawings, what technology they used and
what purpose the lines served.
The town of
Nazca was founded in 1591 by the Spanish Conquistadores on
the Nazca Plateau, without any knowledge of what lay nearby.
Today Nazca is a sleepy little town, slowly developing,
where the main economic activity is based on tourism of the
lines, agriculture and trade. Tourism is directly
related to the Nazca Lines and other archaeological
complexes such as
Cahuachi,
Estaquerνa,
Chauchilla Tombs, and the
Palpa Valley Lines.
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Who drew the Nazca Lines?
Ancient religion? Aliens from outer space? Ancient
astronomers? A megalomaniacal artist? Water sources?
Since discovery in 1927, then exploration by American
scientist
Paul
Kosok and German mathematician
Maria
Reiche in 1939, and through the continuing
efforts of Maria Reiche for more than 50 years, the
Nazca
lines have remained a perplexing enigma of
scholars. Originally thought to be the remains of irrigation
lines beyond the verdant Nazca valley, it wasn't until they
were seen from the air that the lines were fully
recognizable as the vast network of incredible artifacts
that they are.
There are many
hypotheses about these amazing geoglyphs,
such as Erich von Daniken
who argued in "Chariots of the Gods?" that they are the
remains of a giant extraterrestrial airport! However,
reality is often much more mysterious than fantasy, and that
is the case with Nazca, and other artifacts of the cultures
of ancient Peru. Long before the Inca ruled the Four
Kingdoms, the extinct cultures of
Nazca,
Paracas,
Casma,
Caral,
and elsewhere (such as Chile's
Atacama desert), were calculating the passing of time and seasons,
and constructing some of the oldest cities in the world! continue >>
New science about the Nazca Lines?
As science progresses
we learn more about the civilizations possibly responsible
for Nazca and other geoglyphs, but also about the possible
reasons for their creation. Including the latest
Aurora relationship with geoglyphs the world over!
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The Mystery That Is Nazca!
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