ANCIENT ARTWORK IN PERU SPOTTED BY DRONES

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ANCIENT ARTWORK IN PERU SPOTTED BY DRONES
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• The mountainous and rugged terrain of Perus
  deserts have remained something of a mystery for
  many hundreds and thousands of years, but with
  modern technology as its very best, incredible
  ancient artwork has now been discovered that may
  date back from as far as 2,500 years.
• Who might have created the artwork?
• The artworks or geoglyphs (Greek for earth
  carvings), are officially known as Nazca Lines
  and were seen from the skies by drones flying
  overhead. They are thought to have been the work
  of the Nazca people and their predecessors from
  the Paracas and Topara cultures.

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• How many geoglyphs were discovered and how big
  are they?
• There are approximately 50 geoglyphs found by the
  drones, and these add weight to the theory that
  such gigantic designs have a long history in the
  region and may not just have been conceived and
  made by the Nazca culture, one which flourished
  from A.D. 200 to 700.
• Each marking on the ground is long and thin, some
  no more than inches across but with the length of
  a football pitch, and experts believe them to
  have been created by the ancient cultures who
  prospered long before the Nazca, from about 500
  B.C to A.D 200.

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• The shapes include etchings of a monkey, a
  hummingbird, lizards, spiders and a pelican.
• Have these lines ever been seen before?
• In 1927, when a Peruvian archaeologist by the
  name of Toribio Mejia Xesspe was walking in the
  desert, he stumbled across the Nazca Lines and
  shortly after, the site became popular with
  tourists as airplane pilots offered flights over
  the area to give passengers a birds eye view of
  the ancient etchings.

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• Why were these ancient lines created?
• Some experts theorize that the lines were made to
  represent the constellations of the night sky,
  while others believe them to have played a role
  in pilgrimage. There are those who also state
  that the lines were part of a water-based ritual
  that the Nazca carried out after they discovered
  how to irrigate the parched desert land.
• Who exactly discovered them?
• Not many of Perus ancient sites of
  archaeological interest have been mapped from the
  air, so an archaeologist from the University of
  Peru (who co-discovered

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• the new glyphs) teamed up with a lady named Sarah
  Parcak, a space archaeologist and founder of the
  Laboratory for Global Observation at the
  University of Alabama at Birmingham, to begin
  mapping such sites from the skies.
• Using aerial photography taken from top of the
  range drones and satellites, Parcak and the
  archaeologist began examining the sites and soon
  discovered new lines, in much the same way that
  Parcak and her colleagues did when they uncovered
  potential Viking sites in Newfoundland, Canada,
  back in 2016.

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  purposes can be fun and informative, permits and
  permission from the relevant regulating
  authorities must be gained for any such project,
  and its probably best to leave some things to
  the experts!
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