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Reading Between the Lines of Nazca

Posted by timothy on from the of-archaelogical-interest dept.

Kathy Miles writes "About 2000 years ago, the people in an area of Peru etched drawings in the ground so large that they cannot be seen easily except from high above the ground. Many explanations, some far into the realm of science fiction, have been offered for the lines but now two archeologists think they know why the drawings were made. They believe that the area was then desert and that the drawings were all about water."

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  1. Coverup! by uncoveror · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, who paid off these archeologists to publish this whitewash? Could it have been the US Air Force? NASA? the Men In Black? The Nasca lines were placed there for the aliens, whom the primitives believed were gods! They offered these "gods" the Nasca lines, human sacrifices and their women.

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  2. This is embarrassing. by gene_tailor · · Score: 3, Funny
    We're 3 days behind "The latest in Witch/Pagan" News aka Witchvox.com article 5538.

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