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Visible only from the air, the geoglyphs appear to be anything from simple lines or geometric shapes to more complex designs, primarily of animals like birds, fish, llamas, jaguar, monkey or even humans. The largest figures are of hundreds of feet ...
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The Nazca Lines in Peru are one of the most interesting and compelling ancient mysteries. For years, they have been studied by crackpots and historians alike after they were discovered from the air in the 1920's. But a new set of similar lines in the Middle East are making people talk like this is going to be the next big thing. The problem is, they are just not as cool.
The Nazca Lines 1,500-year-old shallow designs that were dug into the Earth in the Peruvian desert. They were created by scraping away the red pebbles to reveal the white Earth below the surface. Visible only from the air, the geoglyphs appear to be anything from simple lines or geometric shapes to more complex designs, primarily of animals like birds, fish, llamas, jaguar, monkey or even humans.
The largest figures are of hundreds of feet across and while there has been much debate about them, it is generally now agreed that they were used as artificial waterways and were just artistic designs.
Satellite and aerial photography has revealed mysterious stone ?wheels? that are more older and even more plentiful than the Nazca Lines in countries such as Syria, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. The structures are thought to be 2,000 year old, but no one knows why they were built.
Now, as a mystery, yes, they are interesting. But in terms of the way they look? It's just not as fascinating. These could just be ancient gardens for all their "design." Essentially, they look like gardening patterns.
The scientists who are studying them have yet to find any significance to what they see as being structures that look like kites or animals or just geometric patterns.
The "new Nazca Lines" were actually first discovered in 1927 by a pilot, but it was not until the new team began studying aerial and Google Earth recently in photographs that it became clear just how many existed.
I love an ancient mystery as much as the next person, but this one seems a little yawn-worthy. Give me the Nazca Lines and UFO theories over some ancient gardens any day.
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