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What is mysterious about the Nazca lines? |
Any other information about the Naza lines would also be beneficial. Thanks! |
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The fact that no one knows who made them, how they were made or their purpose. There have been many theories, but no one knows for sure. |
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The Nazca lines were hand made by the people from the Nazca Culture, a pre-Inca culture in Peru. This has been proven (it's not a mystery) by German anthropologist Maria Reiche who spent 60 years of her life living in Nazca and studying the lines.
These lines depict various animals like a hummingbird, a whale, a spider, a monkey and other figures such as an astronaut, etc. I had the priviledge of flying three times over the Nazca lines and went to conferences about the lines while I worked in Lima years ago.
It has been proven that they were made by mathematical calculus using a mixture of bird dropping and egg white to cover the sand, thus making the picture permanent. They are part of an astronomical calendar made by the Nazca culture, there are other smaller lines near Nazca which are part of this calendar too.
Try finding more information on Maria Reiche and her books in Google. The lines are no longer a mystery and they were not made by martians or some sort of ignorant remark like that. |
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The Nasca (or Nazca) lines or mysterious because no one knows how they got there. Yeah, there are guesses that the Nasca tribe got these lines etched in. Like some think aliens did it (losers), and some think the Nasca's uncovered sand to form these lines. I saw them, they were amazing! You have to go and take a plane to see them, that's how big they are! |
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The Nazca lines were drawn by the people of the Nazca culture. They were made by cracking the surface of the desert (that has been cooked to a hard surface by all the years of constant sun and less than half an hour or drizzle every 2 years). The hard surface is dark, while underneath the surface, the sand is lighter in color, thus looking like it has been painted.
The mystery is how people from an ancient culture could draw straight lines 9 km long, or perfect large circles without modern apparatus, or why they would draw these large animalistic forms in such a way that they can only be seen from the air (when the Nazca people couldn't fly). |
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No one knows who made them. |
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