Still standing🗿 Statue & monumentAntiquity
Nazca Lines
The geoglyphs represent a large-scale ritual shaping of a vulnerable desert landscape. They are an important source for the worldviews of societies whose written histories have not survived.
Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Facts
- Place
- Nazca, Peru
- Civilisation / patron
- Paracas and Nazca cultures
- Built
- c. 500 BCE – 500
- Status
- Still standing
- UNESCO World Heritage since
- 1994
- UNESCO World Heritage
History
On the arid coastal plains of southern Peru, different communities made enormous lines, geometric patterns and animal figures. Removing dark surface stones exposed lighter ground beneath. The figures were created over many generations and are thought to relate to rituals, routes and the landscape, although no single explanation accounts for every pattern. The dry climate helped preserve them, but traffic, development and extreme weather pose risks.
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Sources: Wikipedia — Nazcalijnen