What are Nazca Line figures?
Nazca line figures are enormous geoglyphs, drawings of animals, geometric patterns, and just lines that were made around 2,000 years ago in the Nazca desert. The lines were made by removing surface of the Nazca desert, which consists of reddish-brown iron oxide-coated gravel. The earth below is a much lighter color, and so the lines appear in sharp contrast. They are huge, so it is quite a mystery how these people could have created the lines, whose designs are revealed clearly only from the air. Image of Nazca “Tree and Hands” from Wikimedia Commons. And not only how did they do it, but why? Like Stonehenge for example, the imagination and creativity of the builders continues to amaze us, and the purpose for which they constructed them continues to mystify us. Aerial View of Nazca Lines on Mountain Side Buy at AllPosters.com Many explanations have been put forth since passengers in airplanes flying over the region first noticed the strange “runways” and art forms. Some have suggested
