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December 9, 2012
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The first findings of the most detailed study yet by two British
archaeologists into the Nazca Lines – enigmatic drawings created between 2,100
and 1,300 years ago in the Peruvian desert – have been published in the latest
issue of the journal Antiquity.
As part of a five-year investigation, Dr Nicholas Saunders of the University
of Bristol’s Department of Archaeology and Anthropology and Professor Clive
Ruggles of the University of Leicester walked 1,500 km of desert in southern
Peru, tracing the lines and geometric figures created by the Nasca people
between 100 BC and AD 700.
The confusing palimpsest of desert drawings has attracted a host of theories
purporting to explain them ever since they were discovered during the 1920s –
notably the bizarre ideas of Erich Von Daniken who supposed they were made by
visiting extra-terrestrials.
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