As The Daily Mail reports......
The enigmatic Nazca lines have enticed me for years. Why were they made and how? What religious philosophy would drive people to create massive glyphs in a foreboding desert's sand/rock? We may never know the answer, aliens aside- but it can be fun to speculate.
The mysteries of the Nazca Lines carved into the
Peruvian desert have intensified after gales and sandstorms revealed previously
unseen ancient designs.A pilot discovered a geoglyph of what appears to be
a 196ft-long (60 metre) snake, as well as a type of camelid - such as a llama -
above an unidentified bird. These new lines join existing geoglyphs of a dog,
hummingbird, condor and a monkey, thought to have been drawn by the ancient
Nazca people between the first and sixth centuries.
The discovery was made by pilot Eduardo Herrán
Gómez de la Torre as he flew over the hills of El Ingenio Valley and Pampas de
Jumana, as reported by El Comercio. Archaeologists are now working to confirm the
authenticity of the lines. The geoglyphs, more commonly known as
the Nazca Lines, were first spotted from the air in 1939 when a pilot flew over
the Nazca region of the Peruvian coastal highlands.
The enigmatic Nazca lines have enticed me for years. Why were they made and how? What religious philosophy would drive people to create massive glyphs in a foreboding desert's sand/rock? We may never know the answer, aliens aside- but it can be fun to speculate.
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