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Puzzling Feature of Nazca Glyphs by A. Sokolowski Etched onto the arid “moonscape” of Peru’s southern desert lies one of man’s greatest mysteries; the Nasca Lines. These ancient lines are the most outstanding group of geoglyphs in the world. These geoglyphs consist of over 300 hundred figures made of straight lines, geometric shapes and pictures […]

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Nazca spider glyhp. The Nazca Lines are a series of ancient geoglyphs in the Nazca Desert, in southern PIt has been mentioned by other researchers that many of the creatures represented are not native to the area. The most striking example of this is the 45 meter long Spider. It was identified as a member of the rare genus Ricinulei, which is only found in the most remote and inaccessible parts of the Amazon Jungle.

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The Atacama Giant (in Spanish: Gigante de Atacama) is a huge anthropomorphic geoglyph located on the flank of the Cerro Unita (1245 m) about 15 km northeast of the Chilean city of Huara and 90 km from that of Iquique in the Atacama Desert. Visible from the ground unlike the great figures of Nazca and almost 85 m long it lies on the route of the Inca Trail which is regularly used for transhumance. It is assumed that it represents either a shaman or yatiri or the Andean deity Tunupa-Tarapaca…

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the map for nazca lines, which is located on top of a hill
Map Of Nazca Lines And Palpa Lines
Exploring Ancient Geoglyphs In Peru
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Many of us have wondered, together with countless scholars, what the exact purpose of the mysterious lines is... yet no one has been able to fully understand,

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