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The Nazca Lines

Enormous animal shapes carved into the Peruvian desert 1,500 years ago — only fully visible from the air.

The Nazca Lines are hundreds of massive geoglyphs etched into the Peruvian desert by the Nazca culture between roughly 500 BC and 500 AD, depicting animals and geometric shapes so large they're best seen from above.

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Quick facts

→The Nazca had no known aircraft, yet many figures are only fully recognizable from an aerial perspective.
→The region's extraordinarily dry, windless climate is why the lines have survived largely undisturbed for over 1,500 years.
→Several lines align with underground water channels and solstice points.
→The lines were essentially unrecognized as deliberate large-scale art until aviation made aerial viewing possible in the 20th century.

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Nazca Lines (location)

Hundreds of massive geoglyphs etched into the Peruvian desert by the Nazca culture.

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Toribio Mejía Xesspe (person)

Peruvian archaeologist who first formally documented the lines in 1927.

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