Peru Desert Figures
They were created between 500 bce and 500 ce by people making depressions or shallow incisions in the desert floor removing pebbles and leaving differently colored dirt exposed.
Peru desert figures. The most famous desert intaglios are the nazca lines in peru. A spider a monkey a tree and a giant alien like figure. The nazca lines naezk are a group of very large geoglyphs made in the soil of the nazca desert in southern peru.
These are the nazca lines a collection of hundreds of faint etchings also called geoglyphs created almost two thousand years ago by indigenous inhabitants of what is now peru. The individual figurative geoglyph designs measure between 04 and 11 km across. The large scale etchings depicting people animals and objects date to 2000.
The largest human figure in the blythe intaglio group is 171 feet 52 m long. The famous nazca lines are intricate designs in the ground that cover an estimated 170 square miles in southern peru. Its a paws itively huge discovery.
Most lines run straight across the landscape but there are also figurative designs of animals and plants. The intaglios are best viewed from the air. The newly identified likeness is a nazca line one of hundreds of ancient drawings created in the peruvian desert by removing rock and soil to produce a negative image in the sand writes jason.
Ancient people created the geoglyphs drawings on the. The geoglyphs scratched into the barren. From above the rust colored desert plains of peru a mysterious tapestry of geometric shapes and animal figures appears on the ground etched in white.
This view from the ikonos satellite reveals a giant spiral a spider and perfectly straight lines that stretch for kilometers across the desert. It takes a view from above to appreciate the giant designs the ancient nazca people carved into the peruvian desert. Here the desert is covered by hundreds of geometric figures and stylized animals spiders monkeys fish birds plants and fantasy beings.