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03. Nazca Lines: Giant Animal Drawings for Alien Overlords?

It‘s Probably (not) Aliens!

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The Origins of the Lines

There's a bit of artistic license, exactly. A and the other ones that are lines, that are not drawings, would be a bunch of things. There is some evidence that possibly the lines were part of either a ritual to sort of magically induce irrigation, or literal irrigation. And so yet, many of these lines might have had just utilitarian features borne out of the need to harness and manage fresh water in a desert.

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