Researchers Identify 168 New Nazca Lines in Peru
This makes over a thousand that we know of.
If you’ve read much of my writing, you’ve probably noticed that ancient human history is a favorite topic of mine. I just love learning about how people lived thousands and hundreds of thousands of years ago. We can’t know everything about them. We may not even ever know much about them all because only remnants of them remain — long since buried beneath our feet.
I want to know their perspectives, beliefs, and wisdom and understand their thinking behind creating the things we’ve found. Like today’s topic, the infamous geoglyphs known as the Nazca Lines in Peru. Scientists have known about them for a while, but archeologists recently discovered over a hundred more!
Nazca Lines
Geoglyphs are simple ancient designs, like pictographs, except instead of being drawn on cave walls, geoglyphs are created using the planet’s terrain. They are often challenging to date for the same reason, but they’ve been discovered worldwide, and the artifacts found in the areas are thousands of years old.
The Nazca Lines are easily the most famous grouping of geoglyphs and were created by and named after the pre-Hispanic Nazca civilization — one of the most sophisticated ancient Peruvian cultures. Based…
