As we know that the world is full of many mysterious facts, but there are some mysteries that are still surprising people in their remarkable way. Today we will introduce you to a wonderful place which has been a mystery for many centuries. The Nazca Desert of Peru is famous for the world's most unique and unknown mysterious lines, known as Nazca Lines. These are a group of countless lines and shapes that are extremely large and are believed to have been created by the Nazca culture in between 500 BC and 500 AD. These lines are known as geoglyphs - drawings on the ground typically formed by clastic rocks. The individual figurative geoglyph designs measure between 0.4 and 1.1 km across. These lines and shapes have been created by engraving the ground, some of them are simple lines but many of the shapes represent geometric patterns, animals, birds and humans. The combined length of all the lines is over 1,300 km, and the group cover an area of about 50 sq km. These mysterious figures are so large in size that when viewed from the ground, they appear to be only minor lines, but when viewed from the sky, the existence of these pictures is revealed. Peruvian archaeologist Toribio Mejia Xesspe spotted Nazca Lines in 1926 while he was hiking through the foothills and he was the first to systematically study the lines.
Nazca lines were included in UNESCO's 'World Heritage List' in 1994. There are over 800 straight lines, 300 geometric figures and 70 animal and plant designs, also called biomorphs. Some of the straight lines run up to 30 miles, while the biomorphs range from 50 to 1200 feet in length. The lines are typically 10 to 15 cm deep. What would be the biggest reason or secret of the making of these lines and geometric shapes, no one knows, and without any air support in 500 BC, how these large lines and shapes would have been etched on the ground. A big question is also that when there was no means or technology to fly in the air at that time, then why did the Nazca people create such big pictures which can be seen only from the sky. Were there aliens involved in it? A long line found here seems like an airport runway, which further deepens the mystery of Nazca Lines. Did those people make such pictures for their god or was there someone else they wanted to please or give some kind of signal? Did they know about another world that was watching them from the sky? These are some questions whose answers have not been found till date and as much as the mystery of Nazca lines has been tried to solve, it seems even more complicated.
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