Latest News Update About Nazca Lines Four British Tourists killed:The Air Nasca plane crashed at about 4:15 p.m local time (10:15 p.m. British time) Saturday in the desert near Nazca, about 275 miles (443 km) south of Lima, Andina said on its website. The two pilots aboard the flight also died, it added.
Peru’s Ministry of Transport and Communications announced officials were investigating the cause of the crash.
Several planes that have flown over the Nazca Lines, a series of massive geoglyphs carved in the desert, have crashed in recent years. Six tourists and a pilot were killed in February when their plane crashed on a similar sightseeing tour.
The Nazca Lines, designed between 2,200 years and 1,300 years ago, are so large they are best seen from the air. The UNESCO World Heritage Site includes dozens of drawings of spiders, monkeys, fish and llamas that stretch hundreds of feet across.
If the enormous success of TV’s Lost proved anything, it’s that the general public loves a good mystery (if it proved anything else, it’s that in the world of television, there is absolutely no such thing as a satisfying series finale). We are constantly drawn towards puzzling questions and enigmas, on one hand desperate for answers, on the other hand, reluctant to know them, as the answers may fail to live up to our own imaginations. Sadly for viewers, Lost is no more, but that’s not to say that there are no mysteries out there to obsess over. As it turns out, our world is full of bizarre places that defy conventional explanations. Such is the case with the Nazca Lines.
Located in the Nazca Desert of Peru, the Nazca Lines are a series of large images on the desert floor, the largest of them measuring up to 660 feet across. Although some of the designs are unfamiliar, probably bearing some greater significance to the culture that created them but remaining predominantly indecipherable to modern archaeologists, others are strikingly recognizable to people of the modern world. Among the strange patterns and puzzling geometric shapes, there are massive depictions of spiders, monkeys, birds, and even, it appears, people.
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