Nazca Lines
How did a people with no aircraft lay out animal figures and dead-straight lines running for kilometres across the desert — forms whose full shape is only legible from the air — with such control of scale and proportion, and what were they for?
c. 500 BCE – 500 CE (Nazca culture, with earlier Paracas-phase figures) · Nazca Desert (Pampa de Jumana), Ica Region, PeruAdded July 2026