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For more than a century and a half, scientists and tourists have visited massive animal-shaped mounds, such as Serpent Mound in Ohio (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show), created by the indigenous people of North America. But few animal effigy mounds had been found in South America until recently, when anthropologists identified numerous earthen animals rising above the coastal plains of Peru, a region already renowned for the Nazca lines, the ruined city of Chan Chan, and other cultural treasures.
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Peru’s Nasca lines, which were carved over 1,000 years ago and are visited by 80,000 tourists a year, are being turned into a trash dump.

Until she died six years ago, German mathematician Maria Reich spend 50 years guarding the site. She believed it was a giant astronomical calendar, drawn in the desert. Researchers can’t understand how ancient people from a mysterious culture were able to draw huge figures, such as a monkey and a hummingbird, which can only be recognized from the air, despite the fact that they had no way of viewing them from above.
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UFOnews1 – The Nasca lines are images made from lines of stones in Peru, some over a mile long, in the shapes of birds and mammals, including a hummingbird, a monkey and a man. There are also geometric shapes, such as zig-zags and spirals. As with the pyramids in Egypt and other great early structures, the questions archaeologists ask are why did these early people spend so much effort to make these monuments, and how did they do it?
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