The Nazca are an ancestral culture from modern-day Peru. This highly sophisticated culture made great technological advances in ceramics, textiles and agriculture, including the development of underground aqueducts. However, most people around the world know them for the so-called Nazca Lines. These mysterious lines carved into the ground, forming complex and detailed shapes only seen from high above, have puzzled scholars and the public alike for over a century.

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