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What constellations do the Nazca Lines project from?

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What constellations do the Nazca Lines project from?

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http://www.zmescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/nazca-lines.gif The evidence that the Nazca Lines projects into certain constellations is in some way small. Maria Reiche, the German mathematician and archaeologist who researched the Nazca Lines during 50 years believed these were part of an Astronomical Calendar which indicated the direction of the rising of important stars and the Sun solstices. Famous Nazca drawings like the Spider and the Monkey could show star constellations like Orion and Ursa Mayor. But all these astronomical theories faced a problem, the unknown age of the lines could not be measured by radiocarbon traces, and the direction of the stars also changes within the centuries thru the precession of the equinoxes. In 1968, the National Geographic Society did a study and found that in fact some of the Nazca Lines pointed to the positions of the Sun, the Moon and certain stars two thousand years ago, but this was a mere chance, because again in 1973, Dr. Gerald Hawk

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