Stretching across Peru’s Nazca desert are gigantic drawings, or geoglyphs, only visible from the sky. Known as the “Nazca Lines,” they were rediscovered in the 1920s when aircraft flew over the area. We now know that they were created by the ancient Nazca people, between 200 BCE and 700 CE, by taking away strips of the dark oxide-coated pebbles that litter the desert to reveal the light dirt beneath. The mystery is, why did they do it?
Runway
Length 180 ft (55 m)
Long bands like this fan out across the desert in a pattern that looks like the runways of a modern airport. Hardly surprising, then, that some people came up with the theory that aliens visited the area Mlong ago, and built these long strips as landingareas for their spaceships!
Monkey
Length 180 ft (55 m)
The Nazca people didn’t worry about accuracy in their drawings of animals. The Monkey has three toes on each foot, four fingers on one hand, and five on the other. As a result, some historians wonder whether the numbers had a special meaning.
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