Exploring the Enigma: Nazca Lines, A Mystery Unveiled for Over 80 Years. 🇵🇪 Discover the perplexing Nazca lines, shrouded in mystery for over eight decades. How were they created, and what purpose did they serve in ancient Peru? Situated about 200 miles southeast of Lima, near Nasca, Peru, these geoglyphs consist of 800 straight lines, 300 geometric figures, and 70 biomorphs (animal and plant designs). Some straight lines extend up to 30 miles, while biomorphs span from 50 to 1200 feet (compar

A team of archaeologists from Japan have discovered new Nazca Lines, in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. They announced that they’ve spotted 168 previously undocumented geoglyphs. The newly identified figures depict humans, birds, killer orca whales, cats, and snakes, and are thought to date to between 100 B.C.E. and 300 C.E. Most of the Nazca Lines were constructed more than 2,000 years ago by the people of the Nazca culture, though some are considered to be the work of the earlier Paracas cu