2.  The desert plateau in South America is located in south-western
part of Peru in the Embankment Hills of Cordilliera. It looks like a
spaceport.
The plateau is known especially for the so-called Nazca drawings
- line system, which when seen from above resembles the shape
of animals or geometric figures. They are the work of the Nazca
culture. These are ground geoglyphs, the drawings made by bulk.
Each of them extends over several hundred meters (e.g. a spider,
a condor, a tree). They can bee seen as complete only from a
bird’s-eye view.

3.  Line system, which viewed from above resemble the shape of
animals, plants, or geometric figures, a work of the Nazca
culture. Located in the south-western part of Peru, near the city
of Nazca, in the area over 50 km long and 14 km wide. Lines are
located on four plateaus: Palpa, Ingenio, Nazca and Socos,
between 419 and 465 kilometer of Pan-American Highway. These
geoglyphs were created by the Nazca Indians between 300 BC
and AD 900.

4. Drawings were done by the removal of the red gravel surface and
revelation of the brighter, yellow soil. In this way, there is a dark
background with clear lines being highlighted. Rites are an average of 20
centimeters deep and about a meter wide. The Indians probably first
designed a powerful shape, which were unable to be comprehended with
their eyes and then they moved it piece by piece to the fixed positions.
On the plateau there are hundreds of Nazca geoglyphs that represent
both the seemingly random collections of geometric shapes: squares and
triangles and straight lines extending up to 8 kilometers, and the great
images of animals and plants. The most famous are: spider with the 40-
meter legs, condor with a section of 120 meters, hummingbird, killer
whales, monkeys, dogs, cacti, flowers, fish.

5.  For modern science, the geoglyphs were discovered in 1926 by
two scientists - Alfred Kroeber and Toribio Mejía Xesspe. Initially
they took the line tangle for the area of desert irrigation canals.
Later they found that this is a religious maze, like the sacred
path of the Incas. Another theory was put forward in 1941 by
Paul Kosok. Like the German scientist Maria Reiche, he believed
that the sand patterns are linked to astronomical observations,
and are "the world's largest textbook on astronomy." Some lines
stretching for dozens of meters overlap because of the orbital
motion of the stars, and giant animals faithfully reflect the
contours of the constellations.

6. An American archaeologist David Johnson believes that some of the
geoglyphs were related to water sources and irrigation system (puquios).
Still others seek the trade routes in the large linear systems, a treadmills which
were used to played sports, ornaments which were to enjoy the eyes of the gods, or
even the religious and astronomical calendars. Most scientists, however, agree with
Maria Reich's theory. It argues that geoglyphs were used to determine the time of
sowing and harvesting, as they mark the periodic appearance of the stars and
constellations and identify the points of sunrise and sunset during the autumn and
spring equinox and the summer solstice. A different approach was presented by
Swiss writer Erich von Däniken, who claims that the lines were supposed to be
landing strip for visitors from outer space.