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Mysterious Nazca lines form strange two-footed animal figures in the desert of Peru. Many creatures as well as geometric shapes run for miles and are best seen from the air. They were made by exposing lighter colored soil when sun-baked stones were moved and piled up. Anthropologists believe the Nazca culture that created them began around 100 B.C. and flourished from A.D. 1 to 700
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- MELISSA FARLOW
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- 5400x3462 / 7.2MB
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- Contained in galleries
- Long Road South BOOK_National Geographic 1/1999
