00:00Welcome to the True Crime and Mystery Lounge. Today we travel to Peru.
00:08Ancient civilizations always held its secrets and mystery, which in today's episode is represented in the Nazca lines.
00:18Nazca lines are ancient drawings engraved on rocks that are located in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru, which has been designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO since 1994.
00:37These lines are different drawings of different subjects, from plants to animals, geometric shapes and straight lines, to one that looks like a spaceman.
00:55The drawings are about 800 straight lines stretching along 48 kilometers.
01:01They are geometrical drawings that vary from triangles, rectangles, to winding lines and arrows.
01:12Estimated to be around 300 drawings of birds, monkeys, whales, ducks, flowers, cactuses, and many more.
01:22Only about 70 of these drawings were discovered back in 1926, but no one paid much attention to it, because these drawings does not show from Earth's view.
01:36In 1930 and during a passage of a commercial flight over the area, the drawings were seen.
01:44Clearly, after that, a series of studies began.
01:49In 1941, the studies began by various scientists from all over the world.
01:55For over 40 years, and more drawings were discovered.
02:00Some of them even had astronomical purposes, and some were for old mythical creatures.
02:06In 2018, 50 more drawings were discovered by drones, bringing the totem number to 2400 drawings.
02:19Now, let's get down to the two main questions.
02:23Who drew that, and why did they do it?
02:27Scientists tried to answer these questions by confirming that it was the UNESCO civilization which existed in this desert,
02:35way before the Inca people.
02:39According to the research, there are two more civilizations that might be involved too, which are Shevin and Bracus.
02:49These two civilizations date back to 900 BC, and they are also associated with the Easter Island status.
02:57In 2009, a number of tombs were discovered in the same area, where scientists found many headless mummies, which proved that belonged to the Nazca era, cause they used to collect heads as trophies.
03:14But there is another theory about who actually drew these lions.
03:22Some people believe it's the aliens.
03:25What caused this theory is a drone that was found for a spaceman, which indicates there was a developed civilization.
03:33But scientists debunked this theory, and they say that the drone does not necessarily show the spaceman, it might mean a glorified god, or a creature in their culture.
03:43Now let's talk about the purpose of these drawings.
03:49Scientists found that the drawings aren't random, and the location of each of them was chosen carefully, and they are all between 12 to 15 inch deep in the ground.
04:01Studies indicate that these drawings are an indication of winter and summer solstice, and even more, the animals' drawings represent the star groups in the sky.
04:15Some studies had a different opinion, and they linked the drawings to spiritual prayers and dancing to bring down rain, said it only rains roughly around 20 minutes a year in that area.
04:29Which reinforced that theory, that some of the drawings belong to animals and plants, that does not belong to this area, but instead, they belong to tropical areas.
04:44So what do you think? Is it aliens? Is it ancient civilization? Or is it something we will never know?
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