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Nazca (Nasca) Lines
Introduction
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.
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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.
Archaeologist Christina Conlee recently made an
extraordinary find: the skeleton of a young male, ceremonially
buried but showing gruesome evidence of decapitation. In place of
the missing human head, a ceramic “head jar” decorated with a
striking image of a decapitated head with a tree sprouting from
its skull.
Conlee wonders who this person was? Why was he
beheaded and yet buried with honor. Was he a captive taken in
battle, or could he have been a willing sacrifice? And did his
decapitation have anything to do with the lines? The discovery of
large caches of human heads adds grisly weight to Conlee’s
theories and helps unravel on of man’s great mysteries.
Source:
Edge West Productions
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