Nazca, a resort town in southern Peru, not far from Lima, a region at the foot of the Andes, where there has been only sporadic and isolated showers every two years and it does not rain regularly at least 10,000 years. In 1939, a small fleet of aircraft flying over the desert plain of Peru (Pampas of Palpa) noted the presence on the ground with strange lines, which only later, observations from a greater height, were identified in perfect geometric patterns. The lines have been seen clearly only by the arrival of the scheduled area, in the years after 1920. The lines are drawn by removing the stones containing iron oxides from the surface of the desert, leaving a contrast with the underlying gravel clearer. At the edge of the Pampas, the Archaeologists have discovered the ceremonial city of Nazca, Cahuachi, from which it is believed they came from the makers of the lines. The first was the American who studied them Kosok Paul, sent to Peru in 1939 from Long Island University in New York initially to study the irrigation system devised by the ancient Peruvians, still in use along the coast, perfect technique hydraulic system. The track designs stretches for miles and miles, the lines that they are perfectly straight forward into the ground, is passing through a hill or rough terrain, past valleys, crossing other figures, disappearing over the horizon but never deviating from a path straight. Some of the drawings, the dimensions of which reach also the 200 meters and the traces of which have variable width (from a few decimetres to more than fifty meters), representing animals (like a monkey, a spider, a hummingbird, a whale), flowers, hands, but most certainly are geometric figures . The strangeness and charm that these designs give off quietly lonely, in an uninhabited area and bounded on one side, from large valleys of two rivers and the other by the pre-Andean range of hills, hit the American geographer Paul Kosok, who saw of their existence on June 21, 1941, while aboard a plane on his way to a picnic with his wife Rose. Now he was impressed with two aspects: the size of those remarkable figures, which described a total area 50 km long and 15 wide, and the location where they were, that is, a desert plateau of the Andes. For eight years he moved away from that location, which studied the enigmatic objects in a vain attempt to clarify the secret.
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