Mystery of the Nazca lines

After a long lazy sleep, I wake up again. I know that it has been almost a year since I posted anything on this blog. But yeah, as you may have assumed, sometimes, life takes over and some of our interests and passions take a back seat. Nonetheless, here I am, posting this again. A couple of posts ago, I had told you that there are evidences suggesting the existence of highly advanced civilizations earlier than 5000 BC.

Although some of them don’t appear to be direct evidences and rather appear as mysteries, solving these mysteries automatically brings you to a conclusion of existence of things beyond what was taken to be granted. Most of these don’t require any rocket science to prove the existence. All they require is the use of common sense and simple logic. Unfortunately, common sense is not all that common in the age of academic PhDs, is it?



The Nazca lines in Peru are some things which fall into this category. Naturally, people who hate their PhDs and their hand written text books to be challenged stick to their guns saying that these lines are nothing but drawings drawn by the early natives to kill their time. My question is, “are you serious”? Let us first examine the location of these Nazca lines and then the drawings or the geoglyphs themselves.

The Nazca lines, as most of you may know, are geoglyphs present in the Nazca desert in Peru. For safety sake and to give a bit of credit to the scholars, these geoglyphs are believed to be created somewhere between 400 and 650 AD by the people of the Nazca culture. Now let us look at the terrain. Look above where I said Nazca desert. That means there is absolutely no vegetation. Moreover, studies and research show that Nazca desert had no history, whatsoever of vegetation for thousands of years. This means that, there are neither trees nor any source of water for kilometres. This naturally implies the impossibility of humans to survive in that desert.



Now, let us look at the geoglyphs themselves. There are about 300 figures in this desert in the form of birds, animals, insects and even human beings. These are made of straight lines and geometric shapes. They stretch for kilometres together (for almost up to 80 kms). So, what is weird about that? If you look at these figures from the ground, they look just like straight lines and some random haphazard lines. When you view them from the air, this is when they actually look like figures. So, if someone had to draw these figures for kilometres together, someone should have directed them from the air. Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? I mean, who could possibly imagine an aeroplane in the period 400 – 600 AD?

But again, how logical or sensible is it to say that tribal people with no help from anyone, without food and water and no human habitable conditions would leave everything behind to come and draw figures which stretch over kilometres? Wouldn’t it take hundreds of years without proper food and water and no geometrical instruments and no map to draw these geoglyphs in a desert? Who in their right mind would come to a desert just to pursue a hobby of drawing? And how could these tribal people, without any external help draw massive geometrically perfect drawings which can be viewed only from air? Who taught them to create such impeccable piece of art?

Again, let us assume for a moment that the indigenous tribal people did draw these massive geoglyphs. The question is why? There must be a purpose, right? Some scholars and academic experts argue that they were for the purpose of crop harvesting. Crop harvesting? In a desert? Am I missing some sense here? Another argument is that they drew these geoglyphs to remember their gods. Alright, this seems agreeable. But wait!! It is not over yet. Who were these gods whom these natives feared, loved and respected so much that they took so much effort for centuries to draw these geoglyphs?

It doesn’t end at the geoglyphs. If you take a look at any picture taken from the sky of the desert, you will also witness massive aircraft runway strip-like plains in the desert. Again, aircraft runway strips in a desert? What are they doing there? Scholars are reluctant to accept them as runway strips. But, take a look at a photo and you decide what they look like. I take here, the liberty of assuming that these gods must have been really important for these indigenous people. And they must have been highly technically advanced. They must have given these people something which these people became indebted to.



Maybe, they taught them agriculture, animal farming and harvesting? And maybe something more? How about the art of drawing and using geometry for these drawings? And maybe they also had sufficient technology to guide these people from the skies? Even if they didn’t flying, how about a map and the knowledge of using a map? Sounds absurd and farfetched? Not more absurd than the claims made by the academics about people drawing geometrically perfect geoglyphs for fun in a desert just because they didn’t have any other work to do.. And with no guidance from anyone else.

So, with all these questions and mysteries staring us in the eye, wouldn’t be a possible theory to state that there must have been indeed a civilization in the distant past which must have been technically advanced?