Jessa Briggs
09 November 2023
32m 46s
5. The Nazca Lines (or Empire-State-Building-sized desert drawings nobody knows about)
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Nichey History
Latin and South America have incredible amounts of artifacts and ruins that teach us about their beautiful and complex ancient civilizations. Names like Aztec, Mayan, and Inca are household names. From ritual pyramids to intricate burials to beautiful art, pottery, and instruments, the pieces of culture left behind by these ancient people have been great supplements to the written information that clue us into the past.
But what if we go so far back that there is no writing? What do archeologists and anthropologists do when they uncover a complicated and sophisticated culture long past, but all they have are bits and pieces to put history back together? How do we know how accurate their conclusions are? Can we really decipher what pottery art and burial pieces really meant? or, when looking for meaning, what if we find lines dug into the sand 2,000 years ago, lines that span hundreds of square miles, a planned project of a civilization long extinguished, with no guidebook of intention?
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~Enjoy~
Interactive map of the Nazca Lines: http://141.56.143.3/mapbender/app.php/application/Nasca-Web-Application
Extensive map of the Nazca Lines: https://www.machutravelperu.com/blog/nazca-lines-map
Sources!
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Lines and Geogpyphs of Nasca and Palpa | UNESCO.
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Why the Nazca Lines are among Peru's greatest mysteries | National Geographic.
Study may have solved the history of the Nazca Lines | Heritage Daily.
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Nazca Culture | Wikipedia. (Don't tell on me)
Who were the Nazca? | The British Museum.
Truck Driver Plows Over Peru's 2,000-Year-Old Nazca Lines, Leaving 'Deep Scars' | NPR.
Greenpeace Apologizes For Stunt At Peru's Sacred Nazca Lines | npr.
Peru to take legal action over Greenpeace stunt at ancient Nazca lines | The Guardian.
Trucker Drives Over Mysterious Ancient Monuments | National Geographic.
Nasca Killer Whate | American Museum of Natural History.
El Niño | National Geographic.
Researchers find 168 more ancient images at Peru's Nazca Lines | npr.