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Peru Drawings In Desert

The large scale etchings depicting people animals and objects date to 2000.

Peru drawings in desert. Archaeologists gain insight into ancient desert drawings by walking them. The nazca lines naezk are a group of very large geoglyphs made in the soil of the nazca desert in southern peru. Lines in the desert.

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 geoglyphs scratched into. The individual figurative geoglyph designs measure between 04 and 11 km across.

By abby sewell 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. 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. And 600 ad possibly by the technologically sophisticated nazca people the atlas obscura said.

Archaeologists in peru have made a stunning discovery. Most lines run straight across the landscape but there are also figurative designs of animals and plants. Most of these mysterious geoglyphs were created by the nazca people who lived in the area from 200 to 700 ce.

The dry environment and uncommonly still air have preserved the markings for modern day archaeologists to puzzle over and to guess at their purpose. The first findings of the most detailed study yet by two british archaeologists into the nazca lines enigmatic. Massive ancient drawings found in peruvian desert see newly discovered ancient drawings in peru desert researchers surveying in southern peru with drones have captured images of ancient.

Approximately 100 years ago scientists found an area of about 200 square miles in perus southern desert filled with huge intricate carvings of animals and birds. These drawings called geoglyphs are known as the nazca lines due to their geometric shapes and for the people who drew them who were part of the nazca culture.

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