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Nazca fast
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The Nazca Fast Facts:
----No the line were not made by
aliens but by very skilled artistic people.
----Investigations have revealed the line designs can be made in a
short time with the aid of pegs and string.
----The line are made by clearing the desert surface of the red
rocks thus revealing the pale coloured sand underneath.
----The lines were made between 200BC and 700AD.
----There are hundreds of markings, lines, animals, insects, birds
and plants.
----The reason for the lines is believed be be religious. People
might have performed religious ceremonies while walking within the
lines. They might have believed that the lines could be seen by the
gods from above. It might have been their way of praying by
constructing the lines.
----Some scientists think the lines
were a calendar, while other think it was some form of star chart.
(When the information about the construction of an object is lost it
is important to consider all possibilities.)
----Many of the figures can be seen from the surrounding hills,
there is no need to travel into space. |