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Peru's rich and varied heritage includes the ancient Incan capital of Cuzco and the lost city of Machu Picchu. The country boasts spectacular scenery, including Lake Titicaca, the world's highest navigable lake.
A growing number of visitors are being drawn to its variety of attractions, such as its archaelogical treasures, the Andes mountain range and the Amazon rainforest, which makes up about half the country.
HAROLD NESMITH :
NAZCA LINES IN PERU MADE BY U.F.O..?
The lines are shallow designs made in the ground by removing the ubiquitous reddish pebbles and uncovering the whitish ground beneath. Hundreds are simple lines or geometric shapes; more than seventy are zoomorphic designs of animals such as birds, fish, llamas, jaguar, monkey, or human figures. Other designs include phytomorphic shapes such as trees and flowers. The largest figures are over 200 metres (660 ft) across. Scholars differ in interpreting the purpose of the designs, but in general they ascribe religious significance to them.
The geometric ones could indicate the flow of water or be connected to rituals to summon water. The spiders, birds, and plants could be fertility symbols. Other possible explanations include: irrigation schemes or giant astronomical calendars.Due to the dry, windless, and stable climate of the plateau and its isolation, for the most part the lines have been preserved. Extremely rare changes in weather may temporarily alter the general designs.
THE TOP PICTURES WHERE NAZCA IN PERU MADE BY THE UNIDENTIFYING FLYING OBJECT OR MADE BY HUMAN NATURE??
-> Sixty years ago, Nazca was a dusty small town in the middle of the desert south of Lima. The locals
had long known of some of the ancient piles of stones outside of town on the pampa, or flat desert plain, but they didn?t know they were in the middle of what would become one of the world?s great mysteries. That all changed in 1939 when Paul Kosok, a water irrigation scientist from the United States, was flying over the region in a small plane. From his vantage point in the sky, he was the first person to look down and see the unusual lines on the pampa.
At first, Kosok believed that the lines outlined an ancient irrigation system. But then he made another pass of the area and noticed that one line pointed directly to the setting sun. By an unusual twist of fate, the day Kosok flew over Nazca was the summer solstice. He later called Nazca ?the biggest astronomy book in the world.?
Another fateful chance came later in Lima, when Kosok was giving a speech about his findings. A young German woman, Maria Reiche, was serving as
his Spanish translator. After talking with Kosok, she became obsessed with the Nazca Lines and wound up devoting her entire life to their research. Reiche spent her adult years walking and measuring in the desert, tracing the lines and making detailed calculations of each design. She lived simply in a hotel in town and gave talks about the lines each evening. She died in June 1998 but is still revered in Nazca and, really, all of Peru. Reiche and other researchers concluded the lines were made by the Nazca Pre-Incan culture between 300 B.C. and 700 A.D. Since the Nazca pampa has an almost complete lack of windy weather or rain, the stone piles that make the lines have withstood the elements for thousands of years.
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" So why were the lines built ? "
HAROLD NESMITH :
For my opinion is .. its been many different theories and scores of books and papers written about the Nazca pampa. But, to this day, no one can say with certainty why they were built. It only fuels the mystery and leaves visitors intrigued.
