Nazca Lines, located and carved on to the ground of Nazca desert in Peru, are the mysterious series of geoglyphs. These geogplyphs comprises of designs and artwork of pictographs that are still fresh on a dry plateau of Peru in Nazca desert. Today, this ancient artwork is a part of UNESCO World Heritage, since 1994. However, there are many more interesting facts about these Nazca Lines that are as following.
1. Discovery of Nazca Lines
In 1930, some people discovered Nazca Lines when they were crossing the Nazca desert by plane. After that, geologists took deep interest in these lines and tried to find the secret behind creation of these permanent geoglyphs. Geologists believe that these long series of geoglyphs were made by Nazca people in the ancient era between 400 and 600 AD.
2. Location of Nazca Lines
The exact location of Naxca Lines is the dry plateau in Nazca desert that is called pampa Coloroda. These nazca lines are spread between the two towns of Pampa Coloroda called Plapa and Nazca that comprises the distance of 80 kilometers.
3. Way of Creation
The copper colored rocks were scraped by Nazca people and red pebbles were removed to uncover the bottom ground that was whitish in color by means of surveying equipments and simple tools.
4. Designs of Nazca Lines
There are more than 70 different designs made by these Nazca Lines that comprises geometric shapes and animal shapes like fish, hummingbird, monkey, jaguar, sharks, lizard etc.
5. Still safe
Most of the Nazca Lines are still completely safe thanks to dry and stable climate of area.