The above picture from The Peruvian Ministry of Culture shows the damage caused by a cargo truck that accidentally plowed through the ancient site last week.
A statement from The Ministry of Culture said, "The truck left deep prints in an area approximately 100 meters long, damaging parts of three straight lined geoglyphs."
According to Wikipedia:
The Nazca Lines /ˈnæzkɑː/ are a series of large ancient geoglyphs in the Nazca Desert, in southern Peru. The largest figures are up to 370 m (1,200 ft) long.[1] They were designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994. The high, arid plateau stretches more than 80 km (50 mi) between the towns of Nazca and Palpa on the Pampas de Jumana, about 400 km (250 mi) south of Lima. Although some local geoglyphs resemble Paracas motifs, scholars believe the Nazca Lines were created by the Nazca culture between 500 BC and 500 AD[2] The figures vary in complexity. Hundreds are simple lines and geometric shapes; more than 70 are zoomorphic designs of animals, such as birds, fish, llamas, jaguars, and monkeys, or human figures. Other designs include phytomorphic shapes, such as trees and flowers.
Ancient Origins reported that "this is not the first time that the geoglyphs in Nazca have been damaged by human interference. In 2014, Greenpeace activists walked all over the ancient lines to place a huge message reading ‘Time for Change! The Future is Renewable’ – quite ironic that they were petitioning for consideration of our future while trampling all over our ancient past."
In September 2015 a man was detained after he entered the site and wrote his name on one of the geoglyphs, AFP reported.
To learn more about the Nazca Lines, check out the video below:
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Terrible “accident”.
Exactly my thought, how is this done accidentally?
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all things are impermanent
What the hell! This is sad to learn.
There is a 'book' in the British Natural History Museum, that is the earliest written history of the Isles now called Britain. It speaks of the 'science'/'religion¿' of those 'Atlanteans¿' once known as the Fair Folk (fairies) who were fair skinned very tall thin silver-blonde people washed up on the shores of what is now Devon and Cornwall, from Isles beyond Scilly out in the ocean. They were by those accounts well founded in 'science' and had astonishing 'pictures'/maps, as seen from edge of atmosphere. The book is probably very difficult to get permission to view now, but from my memory it was called -coelura lingus- and it comes to mind from your post because of the views of geoglyphs. There was also mention of a burning liquid that gave light but little heat that was used in ceremonies above ley-line-dragons (hills at ley nodes) called telluric energy¿
It was thought that the 'Drowned Lands' between north Cornwall, South Wales and S.E.Eire were also part of their lost land, but that I never read further has haunted me when I am reminded of that studious summer.