Nazca lines - Wikipedia
The Nazca lines (/ ˈnɑːzkə /, /- kɑː / [1]) are a group of over 700 geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. [2][3] They were created between 500 BC and 500 AD by people making depressions or shallow incisions in the desert floor, removing pebbles and leaving different-colored dirt exposed. [4] .
Nazca Lines | History, Location, Lima, Spider, & Facts | Britannica
2024年12月20日 · Nazca Lines, groups of geoglyphs, large line drawings that appear, from a distance, to be etched into Earth’s surface on the arid Pampa Colorada (“Coloured Plain” or “Red Plain”), northwest of the city of Nazca in southern Peru. They extend over an area of nearly 190 square miles (500 square km).
Nazca Lines ‑ Peru, Astronaut & Definition - HISTORY
2017年12月4日 · The Nazca Lines are a collection of giant geoglyphs—designs or motifs etched into the ground—located in the Peruvian coastal plain about 250 miles (400 kilometers) south of Lima, Peru.
Nazca Lines - World History Encyclopedia
2014年3月10日 · The Nazca civilization flourished in southern Peru between 200 BCE and 600 CE and amongst their most famous legacies are the geoglyphs and lines - often referred to as Nazca Lines - along the eastern coast of Peru and northern Chile.
Nazca Lines - World History Edu
2024年12月24日 · The Nazca Lines are a series of ancient geoglyphs etched into the arid desert plains of southern Peru, near the modern town of Nazca. These lines and designs, some spanning hundreds of meters, depict a variety of shapes, animals, and abstract patterns.
Nazca Lines - Atlas Obscura
2009年10月13日 · Drawings of hundreds of figures stretch across nearly 200 square miles of high arid plateau in Peru, these range from giant spiders to vast geometric shapes, to enormous monkeys as...
The Nazca Lines: A Life's Work - World History Encyclopedia
2019年6月4日 · The Nazca Lines. One of the most sophisticated of the early Peruvian cultures is the pre-Hispanic Nazca civilisation, known for the carvings which they etched onto the surface of the ground between 400 BCE and 650 CE. The builders of these magic and mysterious lines and geoglyphs of Nazca and Palpa created a sacred place. The geoglyphs are one ...
Nazca Lines: Mysterious geoglyphs in Peru - Live Science
2022年12月21日 · The Nazca (also spelled Nasca) Lines are geoglyphs located in an arid coastal area of Peru that cover an estimated 170 square miles (450 square kilometers). Scratched on the ground, the Nazca...
What are the Nazca lines? - HowStuffWorks
2023年6月9日 · The Nazca Lines are a set of ancient geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. They were created by the Nazca culture between 500 BCE and 500 CE. The lines were made by removing the top layer of the desert floor to reveal the white underneath.
The UnMuseum - The Lines of Nazca
The lines at Nazca aren't the only landscape figures South America boasts. About 850 miles south of the plain is the largest human figure in the world laid out upon the side of Solitary Mountain in Chile.
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