The Lines of Nazca - Peruvian Nazca Lines

Travel to the Peruvian Nazca Lines - Discovery of Asian Nazca Lines

If you travel to Peru a visit to the Nazca Lines is almost mandatory. This amazing collection of giant geometric designs, animal forms and long straight lines makes the lines of Nazca beyond belief. They are even more amazing if seen personally. How an ancient people could make such things, regardless of what the reason, is so hard to understand.

This becomes obvious when you visit the area. From the ground you can barely make out the fact that the designs are there. From the air, they just take your breath away. Many visitors report the hair standing up on the back of their neck. The Peruvian Nazca Lines are about 150 miles to the south of Lima Peru.  An airline company, Air Condor, has flights to the closest city, Ica.  We took a tour from Lima that covered everything. Normally I don't like all inclusive tours but in this case it seemed a good idea. The best time of the year is during the months of  January, February and March.

The lines of Nazca that were most impressive to me were the giant lizard, the monkey and the condor. From the air it's easy to lose sight of the stunning size of the designs. The monkey is just short of the size of an American football field, at 275 feet long. The lizard is 60 feet short of the length of two football fields. Most amazing is the wingspan of the Condor, a stunning 400 foot.

Almost nothing is really known about these designs. Who made them, they are Pre-Inca, and why they were made have been the subject of countless documentaries and investigations. To date the mystery remains. 

South West Asian Nazca Lines Discovered

One recent development has made the lines of Nazca even more mysterious. Thousands of patterns, look-alike of Peru’s archaic Nazca Lines, have been found in West Asia. Satellite photography showed mysterious stone ‘wheels’, which are more and older than the Nazca Lines. They have been found in countries such as Syria, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. The wheels are 2,000-year-old, but the reason behind building such Asian Nazca lines is baffling archaeologists and historians.

“In Jordan alone we’ve got stone-built structures that are far more numerous than the Nazca Lines, far more extensive in the area that they cover, and far older,” the Daily Mail quoted David Kennedy, a professor of classics and ancient history at the University of Western Australia.

“People have probably walked over these Asian Nazca lines, walked past them, for centuries, millennia, without having any clear idea what the shape was,” he added. As of October 2011 it is planned that these new findings will be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal Of Archaeological Science.

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The Nazca Lines YouTube Video