When I went to Peru I did a flight experience over the lines as they have a little airport nearby (obviously). Would really recommend to anyone going to that part of the world. The scale of them is mind-blowing.

@gildarichardson146

Жыл бұрын

Lucky you I bet it was awesome

@thomaswatson1995

Жыл бұрын

What was the company called? This sounds amazing!

@MrTWICETHEPRESHA

Жыл бұрын

@@thomaswatson1995 it was with Peru Hop I believe. We went to some tourist office/shop in Lima and saw the package advertised randomly. Included the coach out of Lima to Huacachina (a desert oasis) where you did sand boarding and dune buggy riding, then on to the lines for your flight (flight was around an hour in small planes). Overall was a round trip of a few days and the price was stupidly good value. If the package is still available I’d recommend.

@franklinvasquez2039

8 ай бұрын

Can I suggest a video? they will be surprised

"Chasing people away in a wheel chair". What an absolute legend. Nominating for being in a Brain Blaze video.

@christiangauthier727

2 жыл бұрын

Simon should start the Blaze Awards, or Legendary Blazers Awards!

@chaoslab

2 жыл бұрын

@@christiangauthier727 Fully.

@robsadsack9562

2 жыл бұрын

Or a Biographics

@stonewolf7850

2 жыл бұрын

Seconding your nomination.

@Soundofsilence-j4d

Жыл бұрын

Who needs bully

Ever since I first watched Yugioh 5Ds, wherein the Nazca Lines were the sealed forms of ancient demons, I've found them fascinating and only wonder what the ancients intended for them.

@ghislainedidntkillherself

2 жыл бұрын

lmao ancient demon cat and ancient demon hummingbird

@chrisshorten4406

2 жыл бұрын

@@ghislainedidntkillherself actually, the hummingbird was one of them, named "Earthbound Immortal Aslla Piscu". Also, the condor, the monkey, the spider, the lizard, the less scary orca, and the giant.

@notmyname1208

2 жыл бұрын

Dude when i saw actual images of Nazca lines i thought "holy shit its actually real, am i gonna get eaten by a gigantic glowing lizard?" But im sure as hell glad i got interested in these kinds of stuff.

@JayTheGam3r

2 жыл бұрын

A fellow man of culture

@gidi3250

2 жыл бұрын

@@JayTheGam3r I agree

I saw a documentary years ago that said that most of the lines pointed towards the Andes, from which came the water the locals depended upon, in a kind of magic that would encourage the waters to flow. In drought years, the lines became bigger and longer, kind of shouting to the mountains to do their job. I don't know if that's true, but I certainly prefer it to the Daniken-esque no-white-men-so-therefore-aliens.

@TheBonecrusherz

2 жыл бұрын

Drawing giant animals in a desert to tell the mountains that they have to send more water sounds so much more likely... and of course you had to bring race into it. Pathetic.

@waltermoran380

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine being under the sun carving this lines out. Being ultra ignorantly devoted. Ignorance and survival remain the biggest motivators of the human mind.

@whackadoo

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheBonecrusherz its been said that Daniken is a racist. calm down.

@TheBonecrusherz

2 жыл бұрын

@@whackadoo these days ever straight white male is labeled as racist, you got any evidence? Because I just said that he wasn't so it makes you argument invalid.

@whackadoo

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheBonecrusherz What argument? I was relaying what was said. My god, have some reading comprehension.

Any time archeologists can't find an easy answer for an object or site, they immediately say it was used for ritual. What if the Nazca lines were made as a yearly competition by the local peoples to decide which local lord would be the next year's king? Or if they were made to celebrate the birth of an important figure? Or they could have been used as a way to prevent war. Or one local lord decided he was an artist and got his people to make one, then the other lords were like 'that's super impressive, I want one to' and it just kind of got out of hand.

@owenshebbeare2999

2 жыл бұрын

Ockham's Razor tends to make your suggestion less likely. Ritual/spiritual/religious activities were a much bigger part of society in times past, though don't underestimate its importance today, despite modern Western societies being relatively secular.

@tartnouveau3652

2 жыл бұрын

@@owenshebbeare2999 I think religion/spirituality makes more sense when it comes to massive projects such as this. It’s something large amounts of people can easily come together to dedicate time and energy to.

@joshtowns5630

2 жыл бұрын

It could be a calendar. It could be an appeal to the god/gods to return the described animals to the area, could be a way of marking one year to another like a harvest feast or new year celebration, could represent the formation of a new tribe, could represent important events within the society. Sadly, we will probably never know.

@williamchamberlain2263

2 жыл бұрын

The dick-measuring explanation is good.

@benhalpin7306

2 жыл бұрын

All of those things would be encompassed under the explanation "ritual". They're all rituals. You're just being more specific. These are all speculation though and impossible to prove; what test / what evidence would you use to confirm any of these hypotheses? That's why anthropologists/archaeologists are vague and just say "ritual".

A few years ago I was working as a pilot in Saudi Arabia. We were flying geologists and archeologists around, mapping thousands of tombs littering the desert. Most were simple round rock mounds. But some were extraordinary. Seemingly marking the burial places of tribal leaders, these were amazing feats of precision. Burial mounds linked by perfectly straight lines of piled rock, often well over half a kilometre long, following the contours of the terrain. And it is estimated that some were possibly 5,000 years old. Quite amazing.

@knightf8648

Жыл бұрын

I am convinced ancient civilisations were more advanced.

21 күн бұрын

@@knightf8648 typical human evolution followers, never want to consider humans were advanced back then

What fascinates me about these huge drawings is, without a vehicle to take to the skies in, how did they check their work? No I’m not suggesting aliens. But, see, I am an artist, and it is vital to reflect on the final product, take a step back and really look at what you’re created. They couldn’t really do that, they couldn’t see it from the air! They must have been so brilliant - to be able to make them as accurate as they did only being able to see from the ground - but also frustrated that they couldn’t really truly behold what they’d made.

@Earthomo

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent point!

6:37 You can just tell by Simon's cadence and tone that he absolutely hates alien theories haha

1:00 - Chapter 1 - Lady with a broom 4:35 - Chapter 2 - Chariots from orion 8:35 - Chapter 3 - Joining the dots 11:20 - Chapter 4 - Ok but...why ? 15:05 - Chapter 5 - Cats & other discoveries - Chapter 6 -

@DianaMarieSix

10 ай бұрын

I’ve watched so many videos about the Nazca lines but not once have I heard anyone address the elephant in the room…..what was the purpose of them being so huge? Think about it, we in 2023 can only truly observe a great majority of them by drone videos or planes. Can we all just admit that it is an astonishing mystery and that anything is possible.

I can hear Simons internal screaming every time he mentions ancient alien theories lmao

@CycoWarriorx

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@iknowyoureright8564

Жыл бұрын

Haha, Of course……he’s so smart with his beard and fake condescending tone that he knows for sure that the infinite universe could never had any other life forms within it or that may have visited this or any other planet in history but, and to even surmise that as a possibility (however small the chance) must be laughed at because “he knows better”. people obviously were signalling to something above, wether it be the sun, starts…shooting stars, passing comets or even UFOs……they all exist, and no one will ever know what they where signalling to or etc……..and to laugh at the “alien” theory in general and “attempt” at humour with the “duty free” comments etc……is an attempt at to firmly root yourself in with the main narrative and dismiss (without an actual fact whatsoever) a theory which you have no evidence of. I tried my best to write this is my best slightly posh…..moving upwards in tone towards the middle of the sentence before moving down in tone towards the end with everything I said type vocal tone while moving my head sporadically in small movements to give some of my words emphasis to appear smart…. It would seem THATS all it takes.

I love the dripping sarcasm barely under the surface of Simon’s delivery. It pokes its head up every few paragraphs and says hi when something is just TOO ridiculous not to comment on.

Simon I am so impressed that you were able to say , 'a satanic star force that takes over star systems in the galaxy...' without any snide remarks and the Orion Group deserved it!!!

I hope that if we do one day send spaceships throughout the galaxy and discover inhabited planets we do all the shit we did in Earth that people accredit to aliens. We can carve artwork into the ground, put a few pyramids here and there and fill an uninhabited island with Moai. Sounds a lot more fun that what we usually do to less technologically advanced people.

@lizc6393

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent and underrated point. We sell our ancestors short, kinda all the time.

I enjoy histories mysteries. I always think of the peoples making something and snickering among themselves as they do things to confuse the people of the future. Maybe they thought someone would get the joke. I wonder what people in the future will think when they see Mount Rushmore, or some other long lost creation from us.

@lauriepenner350

2 жыл бұрын

I think archaeologists are too quick to say every weird find was for religious purposes. Ancient people were people, and when people get bored we entertain ourselves by doing weird dumb stuff like creating art that has no practical use.

@TheBonecrusherz

2 жыл бұрын

@@lauriepenner350 yeah but people in the past didn't have that much spare time to do dumb shit just for fun like we do today.

@lauriepenner350

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheBonecrusherz Depends on the culture though. In places with a cold winter you'd work your butt off in the summer and fall to preserve food and then spend the winter in your home doing not a heck of a lot. I do get your point though.

At this point I might as well call my phone Simon! The only sound that comes out of the speaker these days is Simon's voice

@seanstevenson8051

2 жыл бұрын

Instead of " hey siri " it's "hey simon" or "hey factboy"

I've wanted to visit the lines for years. Good to see an article about them that doesn't buy into the alien theories

@mrvn000

2 жыл бұрын

I LOVE aliens!!

I found the material highly interesting, taking into consideration my yesterday visit on the Nasca desert.

@samyeezy3068

2 жыл бұрын

Cool

@liwyatan

2 жыл бұрын

It's Nazca. And for God sakes, I hope that you have done your duty and visited far more than only the lines. The Nazca were truly awesome. If not get back to the Casa Andina (the best restaurant in town it's just crossing the street, like five meters away from the door of the hotel) and do your duty! Cusqueña de Trigo, always! ;)

It'd only take a mild storm to completely erase the Nazca Lines. I'm amazed it hasn't happened in over 500 years.

@dewiz9596

2 жыл бұрын

You have a dry sense of humour 😀

So disappointing seeing that highway going through one of them 😞

Nobody ever consider the people who drew them just did it for the craic, same way people do random art projects now

@resileaf9501

2 жыл бұрын

Sure, but these lines have been made over centuries, so it's a pretty long-lasting art project at this point.

Bravo mentioning Jason Colavito. He was a skeptic on the pilot of Ancient Aliens because he knew George Tsokalos. He has a review blog where he has spent years debunking ancient aliens.

Possible “alien” theory in a video? I slam that like button before I even watch the video because I know I am going to totally enjoy hearing snark in Simon narration, and it makes my day! Learned something new about the lines too.

It's to the point where I can hold my breath until you post a new video!🥱😨😰😤

So...if I may, I love the Nazca lines, but I baffled why it was such a mystery as to how they drew the lines. As a former art student, the sane methods described by some archeologists are similar techniques used in graphic design. I'm not saying it was *easy* for ancient peoples to do so, just that it is obvious to me how it could be done.

@TheGryfonclaw

2 жыл бұрын

And I say this not in a way to diminish the impressive scale and accomplishments these works represent, but as a way to relate on a smaller scale. My dad asked me to 'draw something big' next to our pool using landscaping stones when I was 13 or so. Internet wasn't much of a thing yet, so it didn't occur to me to look up a technique. It wasn't easy, but I eventually worked out a more or less to-scale outline (with features) of an arching orca using bags and bags of black and white pebbles. I...did a connect the dots method.

@virgiliustancu9293

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheGryfonclaw the question is why to do this?!? It is not like they had food and water for free and decided to use their time to make useless designs. Those things can be seen only from a plane or balloon. Also you need some knowledge of geometry. I don't think that everybody in those times were art students.

Nazcan 1: I'm super bored. Too bad the concept of "entertainment" won't be invented for centuries. Nazcan 2: We could go carve a giant animal into the ground. Nazcan 1: What, another one?

@willmfrank

2 жыл бұрын

Nazcan 2: We could carve a different one. How 'bout a monkey? Nazcan 1: Too many fingers. Nazcan 2: How 'bout a spider? Nazcan 1: Too many legs. Nazcan 2: How 'bout a whale? Nazcan 1: Too many...Cool! Let's do it!

My dearest Mr. Factboi, it is my greatest pleasure to witness you speaking about this topic with such an enormous enthusiasism, you almost remind me of the host of a KZread channel called Brain Blaze.

Thank you! My father always wondered how they plotted out those massive pieces of artwork. I'm just sad he passed away before I could show him this....

Imagine being able to travel light years through space but you still need a landing strip to land…

@OuterGalaxyLounge

2 жыл бұрын

Good one.

@ajstevens1652

2 жыл бұрын

And why would they bother visiting our planet.

@TheCasanovaPugilist147

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe their very large spaceships that can achieve speed of light travel stayed in space while their reconnaissance vehicles still required landing strips to land lol

@ThinkJD

Жыл бұрын

Gravity

When considering the Nasca lines & other geoglyphs around the world, I think 3 main concepts for their creation must be considered:. 1). practical; i.e., directional or resource markers; 2). abstract; i.e., artistic representation; 3). communication; i.e., information & idea exchange. These 3 basic concepts are as integral to modern civilization as they would have been to ancient ones. We put up signs & markers telling us which way to go. The signs vary artistically as we express our ideas of what we're trying to achieve, & are sometimes art simply for art's sake. Of course, this all is intended to communicate to the viewer the correct way to go, & what can be found at the end destination. These concepts are seen throughout human history, from the earliest times, & are what enable us to be a functional society today. Wonder what historians 10,000 yrs. from now will think about OUR "Nasca lines"?

@cdfdesantis699

2 жыл бұрын

@Leo the British-Filipino Thank YOU, Leo! Always good to hear from another clear thinker!

@resileaf9501

2 жыл бұрын

I imagine that the challenge here is figuring which of the three (or any combination of the three) are meant to be represented in the Nazca lines. We lack the context of the era to know for sure. Our own lines are our highways and roads, which for the most part are fully directional, but there are some that are meant to be "artistic" (race tracks).

@cdfdesantis699

2 жыл бұрын

@@resileaf9501 You're exactly right! I think all 3 concepts are represented at Nasca & other sites, & that they apply to not only the physical, but the social fabric, as well. For instance, animal & plant geoglyphs could be specific to 1 individual clan or social group, much as the totems of the Pacific Northwest Native Americans & the Polynesians of the South Pacific islands do. We ALL use art as an abstract means of communicating how we perceive & interact with the world around us, whether it's geoglyphs or music or what have you. And consider Egyptian heiroglyphs - they evolved from primitive art expressions into stylized pictorial writing. From symbolically pointing the way to the water hole, to communicating the greatness of their Pharoahs. I think this is part of what makes us human, & 1 way or another, we'll keep drawing our lines in the sand. Thanks for your comment.

Love all your channels. I have two story ideas though I'm not sure if this is the right channel for them: the sea evacuation from the south end of Manhattan on 9/11 and the Boston Molasses spill.

There's so much more to find about these amazing carvings. ❤️

People say "aliens" or "it's possible for early humans to do this without help", but what about the idea of lost ancient man-made technology? Why is that not allowed as a reason? T_T

@cdfdesantis699

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, Gamefreak. I get what you mean. Check out my reply to Jonas Richert's comment farther down. I totally agree with you - I think some previous unknown civilization threw a great big party, & WE didn't get invited!

Great video, Geographics team!

Apparently, there was some kind of "Tunguska" like event over the Atacama desert way back in time. Maybe people were trying to petition whomever sent those bombs from up above to stop doing this. There are some papers on this online.

i've waited so long for this!!!!

The "Pilgrimage Paths" are also seen in the work of Anasazi inhabitants of the Southwest US. Thank you Simon. Happy New Year.

You are good and your production is too. I appreciate your presentation.

I looked up that orca drawring and yes, it is hella creepy. Thanks for mentioning it. Now the Great White from _Jaws_ has worthy competition within my nightmarespace.

With a thousand years between the earliest lines and the newest, I think there's plenty of room for different artisans to have made their creations with different purposes. Following earlier traditions, they built lines for their own needs. So there can be many answers.

Biomorphs sounds like an Asylum mockbuster in a parallel universe where Animorphs was a successful film franchise.

Some of the lines expand over undulating land and remain straight, regardless of the terrain. This can only be done from above or with some form of guidance. Because at ground level, you wouldn’t be able to see over the rises and mounds to maintain such precision, which can only really be admired and appreciated from above…

@liwyatan

2 жыл бұрын

The form of guidance is a rope. It's no mystery at all how they were made. It's quite easy to draw thinks at scale. You draw a small picture, and scale it using ropes and some sticks. The lines are not impressive at all, compared with the rest of what the Nazca made. The problem it's that we only see "the lines". The Nazca, literally, created a vast irrigation system that allowed them to make one of the driest deserts on Earth fertile. Some parts are still in use today (after more than 2 thousand years). They build pyramids, cities, .... they were quite clever.

@ajstevens1652

2 жыл бұрын

The Romans built remarkably straight roads over incredibly long distances, but there is no evidence of them ever possessing aircraft.

@SAthefuture

2 жыл бұрын

A simple magnetic compass

Thanks for showing these! I’ve found them fascinating since reading “Chariots of the Gods” in fourth grade.

Nazca was one of the most amazing things I’ve seen. Between that and Chavin, Peru is somewhere everyone should visit. A truly amazing country

A giant 1 mile tall drew the Nazca lines and used that land as a whiteboard

I never knew about this place until I saw this video. Thanks Simon 😉

I imagine some of those really straight lines that end with a bit of flair toward the end were ceremonial for sure. Basically a giant red carpet to walk a giant procession of people down. Like a parade ground on modern military bases.

*listening to simon describe how they lines were most likely made* sounds like how u draw stuff in minecraft

The light behind you looks like one of Mr. Popo’s eyes and it’s terrifying.

nice one Simon

mercuryabz At 12:50 it is clear those lines are too precision straight and parallel to have been made on the ground , but they have been made from above in the sky by some flying objects, I have seen pictures that these lines cross hills and mountains and still are precision straight extended

The amazing thing is that they built the lines right next to the visitor centre, must have been made for tourism

I'm still laughing at the eco protest that destroyed sections of the lines.

I posit that the nazca lines are just street maps in an area where preservation was slightly easier.

I can’t believe some idiot partially destroyed one of the designs. I don’t remember what the punishment was but I don’t believe anything could be severe enough.

@Dr_Fuzz

2 жыл бұрын

Remember some drunk idiots slammed their vehicle into Stonehenge?

@jamesray1439

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dr_Fuzz life in prison sadly isn’t enough. These places are historical gold.

@Dr_Fuzz

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesray1439 damn right brotha

@poochie81

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dr_Fuzz to be fair Stonehenge isn’t exactly in its original state anyway, it’s been restored lots over the years and even had stones erected that had fallen over and the same thing has happened at most other archaeological sites that have been known about for hundreds of years. Life in prison seems a bit harsh for some drunk guys in a car that probably barely made a scratch.

Nasca Person: Hey Sculpter; whatcha up to. Sculpter: I'm gonna make these giant lines pictures on the ground. Person: why? Sculpter: I want to fuck with people 3000 years from now. They'll never figure it out.

Try not to think too deep about what these things mean and what their purpose is. It could simply be artwork, maybe with some spiritual influence. In anthropology class in college down in Tucson Arizona, we learned that the southwest American Indians all the way down through central America partied fairly hard And hallucinogenic plants, such as peyote and Mezcal. It truly is fine art work

@fishrowe420

2 жыл бұрын

Arizonan. Very Yes. Much of both/ each.... 😎

When Simon started talking about the Orion Group, I just zoned out

I love how passionate ancient alien and alt history people are.

I’m glad you brought up the ancient alien racism connection. Good video, well researched, thanks.

Good video 👍

My man Simon is about to start smiting the unworthy with his mighty staff with that beard

I got an a for a paper I wrote in college astronomy on the origin of the lines having to do with the out of body experience they had from ingesting a locally grown cactus of which motifs have been seen on pottery from the period. One can only see the image’s form from high above so take a trip, see the monkey (basically).

They were made by artists that were really good at geometry and maths

Two taggers from Nazca, "let them figure this out".

there are no mysteries here, they gave plus 1 faith food and production to adjacent tiles

With all this talk I'm beginning to think aliens are indeed visiting us.

Once you've read Grahame Hancock you can never watch something like this again without intense frustration.

"they suggest aliens because they are racist" *Laughs in Stonehenge*

This falls under natural rather than man made phenomena, but could you do a video on the Old Man of the Mountain, a former geological formation in New Hampshire's White Mountains? Despite it crumbling to the ground one damp foggy night in 2003 it's still an enduring symbol in the Granite State, featuring on everything from license plates to commercial signs.

@Lady_Evelyn

2 жыл бұрын

He has a video on Hassan Saba on biographical

Excellent

The tinfoil hat chappies seem to think that only visual signals embedded in the ground can direct a flying saucer into its landing spot. Despite having flown from a galaxy far far away.

what explains the mountains with the tops cut cleanly off?

Surprised this hasn't been done before

So many new creations...wow

Nice topic

The geometric and straight lines were ancient racetracks for Nazcar, the racing circuit that predated Nascar by several centuries. The stock cars that the natives raced have long since rusted away. 🤣

perhaps as the civilization was declining and there was unrest, these were made as public works to get some members to work however as they got better at it the more affluent started to use them as a status symbol.

Awe inspiring 😯👍👍

Erich Von Daniken's view on the Nazca Lines changed from the time he wrote about them in the 60s to now.

My theory is that someone traced giant pictures with his foot. He probably doesn’t know why. Like the time I built the 8 foot tower of rocks in the woods behind my house. One night I was drunk as fuck and it just seemed like the thing to do at the time

The Nazca Lines are the only reason why I like the Pokemon sigilyph. They even went so far as to making it only appear in the desert during its debut. the Pokedex also references that thy used to be the guardians of a ancient civilizations. Also for those wondering sigilyph is likely based off of the hummingbird or condor geoglyphs

The theory that these line were created by the mountain vantage point is an interesting one. Especially as the "cat" is on the side of the mountain. This also doesn't explain how they coordinated the process, I'm assuming they used their, 1000 year old walkie talkies to make sure everyone was in their correct positions?

I see that quite a number of the biomorphs are created with a single continuous line, which approaches, delineates, and leaves the shape on parallel tracks. Surely that is significant? Processional?

@andreaeray

2 жыл бұрын

There appeared to be a single break in each glyph, as for start and finish points.

With all the theories and how widely varied they are, I have to wonder, what if there is no deep, ceremonial purpose? What if the Nazca lines are just artwork? What if they're just murals constructed by the Van Goghs and Mondrians of their era? Or what if it was some big prank perpetrated over hundreds of years by the era's equivalent of frat boys?

Personally, I find it quite a coincidence that the lines were made in a location that they would be perfectly preserved. I think whoever did them knew that this would be the case. There could be something in the rain thing I guess, but to try and make out that the mystery is definitely 'solved' with that theory is a stretch to say the least. They were certainly made to be viewed from above

Surpised this isn't a "Decoding the Unknown" video!

It’s not a cat btw, it’s whatever big cats they had in the wild. They didn’t have domesticated cats before first contact. Tbh they probably just thought they looked cool, or they had a functional purpose.

Simon why did you stop uploading to the casual criminalist and brain blaze?

Good on ya, mate!

i need to see them all they are so cool

Weather its true or not ,walking without focusing ones eyes seams to have been done to overwhelm ones eyes focus,thus relieving ones eyes and letting other parts of our survival mechanics to evolve ,such as smell,hearing and others that the average white folk never considered\.I feel that after practicing, it is overwhelmingly key in to natural abilities such as lucid dreaming and much more.Human awareness is something yet to evolve to its optimum and these ancients were playing with such boundaries …the results seamed to be simplifies in the deserts

Paul Devereux's book "Shamanism and the Mystery LInes", Quantam, 1992, he argues, persuasively, that the Nazca lines, and the so-called ley lines were established by shamans whose trance flights to their version of heaven were marked on earth by these straight lines. The tribes in the Nazca area still use these straight lines as "Death roads|" which are noted for being straight to the point of ignoring easier topography nearby, in favour of the most direct route regardless of the terrain. Remnants of similar beliefs survive in Germany, the Netherlands and England, where there isolated instances of special tracks used to carry caskets from the church to graveyards. Since the Shamans were flying in straight lines in their trances to make their way to the realms of the dead it made sense that they marked the shamans' trance flights to the same places. According to Devereux, the giant animal geoglyphs at Nazca (and the chalk hill figures in t he UK) were deliberately designed to be seen from the air to guide the shamans spirits back to their tribal village or locality. I think it is a very elegant solution to the Nazca Lines

Is Toronto or Montreal good future ideas?

Trying to communicate to alien beings now doesn’t seem all that far-fetched 😮

Radical Edward, maybe?

We all know that the lines were made by drunk aliens trying to do donuts.

Could these Nazca lines be made for ceremonial purposes, like in European ancient stone labyrinths? People danced ceremonially in them.

I think that despite the many interesting facts about the Nasca Lines Machu Picchu takes most of the atention when comes to turism in Peru.

6:40 - Yeah, 'Aliens'. Time to put on your aluminum foil brain-control deflector beanie! 8:30 - Correct! It wasn't aliens. It was the locals. ____...____

You did a good job presenting multiple points of view and pointing out that they dont have the whole story yet. I also like that you pointed out that the biomorphs and the straight lines were done at different times, but I disagree with the view that they serve the same purpose. I loved that you highlighted Maria sweeping the lines by hand, and chasing people away in a wheelchair. Although I knew she protected them, I didnt know that bit. So, you taught me something. When I first heard about this mystery, she stood out to me as the most interesting character, but the more I learn about her, the more I lovable she becomes.I think she needs her own movie. Anyways, thanks for this. I like that even though you made it clear that you disagree with the hypothesis of outside intervention, you still mentioned it as a possibility.