Nasca lines

By Human Odyssey Located in the arid Peruvian coastal plain, some 400 km south of Lima, the geoglyphs of Nazca cover about 450 km. Thes...

The Nazca Lines in #Peru were created between 200BC and 500AD, and have remained largely intact due to the dryness of the desert. Mos of these geoglyphs can only be seen from the air and vary in complexity. They are now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Little is actually known about Peru’s Nazca Lines. These Nazca Lines Facts will give you helpful visitor insight and help you piece together some of the unknowns, and you can make up your own mind regarding what’s truth and what’s historical fiction. Many lingering questions remain: What do they represent? Who built them? Were aliens

Motorcycle rentals in Peru give you the chance to fly over the Nazca Lines. Given the option, should you?

A Nazca geoglyph depicting a hummingbird. The designs and lines created on the desert floor of southern Peru are known collectively as the 'Nazca Lines' and were made over several centuries between...

The spider is an ancient and powerful symbol found round the globe, and have always elicited a wide range of emotions in people: fear, disgust, panic, and sometimes curiosity and appreciation. This broad spectrum of impressions has influenced origin myths, legends, art, literature, music, architecture, and technology throughout history.

The Nazca Lines are one of Peru's most well-known features, which are hand-carved shapes of animals in the gypsum desert.

Map of Nazca Lines designs

Many wonder how the Nazca lines were made. But this remains an unsolved mystery until this day. No one seems to know why and for what they were made.

In the Nazca region, scattered over 500 square kilometers of an arid plateau between the Nazca River and Ingenio River, exist huge representations of geometric patterns, animals, humans figures and thousands of perfectly straight lines that go on for kilo