The mysterious Nazca Lines of Peru

Nazca and Palpa, a 5½-hour drive south (or one-hour flight) from capital Lima.

Looking like some adventure film set, this bleak setting showcases gargantuan shapes painstakingly fashioned between 500 BC and 500 AD by the mysterious civilisation which once inhabited this place. There are many different theories about this enormous, enticing enigma. The American Archaeological Association, for example, offers up various interpretations and new discoveries that shed some light on these lines in the desert. But it turns out there are more questions than answers.

Read more in our post Peru´s Mighty, Mysterious Nazca Lines.


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