16 Facts About Nazca Lines

Nazca Lines began to study how the lines might have been created, as well as to try to determine their purpose.

Nazca Lines was joined by archaeologist Richard P Schaedel from the United States, and Maria Reiche, a German mathematician and archaeologist from Lima, to try to determine the purpose of the Nazca Lines.

Nazca Lines used this technique to "draw" several hundred simple, but huge, curvilinear animal and human figures.

Nazca Lines forming the shape of a cat were discovered on a hill in 2020.

One hypothesis is that the Nazca Lines people created them to be seen by deities in the sky.

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Nazca Lines classified them into three groups: the first appeared to be tracks connected to irrigation and field division, the second are lines that are axes connected with mounds and cairns, and the third was linked to astronomical interpretations.

Nazca Lines theorized that the lines and figures were part of religious practices involving the worship of deities associated with the availability of water, which directly related to the success and productivity of crops.

Nazca Lines interpreted the lines as sacred paths leading to places where these deities could be worshiped.

Nazca Lines's asserted the giant spider figure is an anamorphic diagram of the constellation Orion.

Nazca Lines's further suggested that three of the straight lines leading to the figure were used to track the changing declinations of the three stars of Orion's Belt.

Swiss writer Erich von Daniken was fascinated by Nazca Lines and was a strong believer in extraterrestrial visitations.

Nazca Lines often explains the origins of religions as reactions of ancient people when they came in contact with an alien race.

Nazca Lines theorized that the shapes and lines were made by aliens and were created to help steer their spaceships, as well as work as landing pads.

Conservationists who seek to preserve the Nazca Lines are concerned about threats of pollution and erosion caused by deforestation in the region.

Nazca Lines said, "[T]he mudslides and heavy rains did not appear to have caused any significant damage to the Nazca Lines".

Nazca Lines had damaged three of the geoglyphs by leaving substantial tire marks across an area of approximately 46 m by 107 m .