Discover the meaning of the Nazca lines
Now imagine realizing that the design was carved sometime between AD 1 and 700. C. This was how the Western world first learned about the Nazca lines.
Located in the southern desert region of Peru. The lines range from spirals to intricate designs like monkeys, llamas, and flowers. Some of the drawings reach 365 meters ( that is, more than three football fields ) which means that they are best seen from above, from an airplane or a satellite.
However, the lines were created long before airplanes and satellites, which has caused generations of scholars to wonder why they were created, particularly if the Nazca were unable to enjoy the work in all its splendor.
Thanks to satellite images, scientists think they have a good hypothesis for the mystery behind the lines.
They were related to the most valuable resource in the desert: water.
“The Nazca, were able to use groundwater for irrigation and aqueducts to benefit their agricultural activity; this is how the Nazca were able to transform the desert into a garden”,
said Rosa Lasaponara , a researcher at the National Research Council in Rome .
Lasaponara co-wrote a study last year that used satellite images to investigate some of the unusual structures found in the landscape near the Nazca lines: spiral-shaped holes called puquios .
