The Nazca Lines: Mysteries of the Giant Geoglyphs

There's loads of rumours out there about the Nazca Lines, but what is the truth?!

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[MrTWICETHEPRESHA]

When I went to Peru I did a flight experience over the lines as they have a little airport nearby (obviously). Would really recommend to anyone going to that part of the world. The scale of them is mind-blowing.

[chaoslab]

"Chasing people away in a wheel chair". What an absolute legend. Nominating for being in a Brain Blaze video.

[ignitionfrn]

1:00 - Chapter 1 - Lady with a broom
4:35 - Chapter 2 - Chariots from orion
8:35 - Chapter 3 - Joining the dots
11:20 - Chapter 4 - Ok but...why ?
15:05 - Chapter 5 - Cats & other discoveries
- Chapter 6 -

[DragonFae]

Any time archeologists can't find an easy answer for an object or site, they immediately say it was used for ritual. What if the Nazca lines were made as a yearly competition by the local peoples to decide which local lord would be the next year's king? Or if they were made to celebrate the birth of an important figure? Or they could have been used as a way to prevent war. Or one local lord decided he was an artist and got his people to make one, then the other lords were like 'that's super impressive, I want one to' and it just kind of got out of hand.

[HeliRy]

A few years ago I was working as a pilot in Saudi Arabia. We were flying geologists and archeologists around, mapping thousands of tombs littering the desert. Most were simple round rock mounds. But some were extraordinary. Seemingly marking the burial places of tribal leaders, these were amazing feats of precision. Burial mounds linked by perfectly straight lines of piled rock, often well over half a kilometre long, following the contours of the terrain. And it is estimated that some were possibly 5, 000 years old. Quite amazing.

[Chef_PC]

I love the dripping sarcasm barely under the surface of Simon’s delivery. It pokes its head up every few paragraphs and says hi when something is just TOO ridiculous not to comment on.

[AllDayBikes]

6:37 You can just tell by Simon's cadence and tone that he absolutely hates alien theories haha

[FreeFallingAir]

It's to the point where I can hold my breath until you post a new video!🥱😨😰😤

[jondoe]

So disappointing seeing that highway going through one of them 😞

[onlocationkat]

Bravo mentioning Jason Colavito. He was a skeptic on the pilot of Ancient Aliens because he knew George Tsokalos. He has a review blog where he has spent years debunking ancient aliens.

[meighanlynne]

Possible “alien” theory in a video? I slam that like button before I even watch the video because I know I am going to totally enjoy hearing snark in Simon narration, and it makes my day!
Learned something new about the lines too.

[joeyr]

At this point I might as well call my phone Simon! The only sound that comes out of the speaker these days is Simon's voice

[amHlam]

It'd only take a mild storm to completely erase the Nazca Lines. I'm amazed it hasn't happened in over 500 years.

[TheGryfonclaw]

So...if I may, I love the Nazca lines, but I baffled why it was such a mystery as to how they drew the lines. As a former art student, the sane methods described by some archeologists are similar techniques used in graphic design. I'm not saying it was *easy* for ancient peoples to do so, just that it is obvious to me how it could be done.

[EdwardGregoryNYC]

With a thousand years between the earliest lines and the newest, I think there's plenty of room for different artisans to have made their creations with different purposes. Following earlier traditions, they built lines for their own needs. So there can be many answers.

[FloatingSpark]

You have no idea how happy it just made me to hear you say "appropriated sun symbols". I feel like 99.9% of people don't know that's what the swastika is, and as a human being with the genetic memory of millions before me, it hurts my soul. I've been severely harassed for posting pictures of the swastika in all human cultures throughout time, for explaining that it's an inevitable symbol in just about every culture at some point or another due to its appearance in woven baskets, that it is one of the primary symbols in all of human history, but so many just know it as "but Nazis!!". I feel that something went dreadfully wrong in human consciousness when the Nazis appropriated the swastika, and that it is our duty to reclaim it for all of humanity. To take a symbol of enlightenment and turn it into a symbol of hate is magic of the darkest degree, yet we have the power to change that magic and reclaim our human heritage.

[surrealsadi]

Thank you! My father always wondered how they plotted out those massive pieces of artwork. I'm just sad he passed away before I could show him this....

[-Awareness]

Some of the lines expand over undulating land and remain straight, regardless of the terrain. This can only be done from above or with some form of guidance. Because at ground level, you wouldn’t be able to see over the rises and mounds to maintain such precision, which can only really be admired and appreciated from above…

[MediaFaust]

Apparently, there was some kind of "Tunguska" like event over the Atacama desert way back in time. Maybe people were trying to petition whomever sent those bombs from up above to stop doing this. There are some papers on this online.

[billymeadows]

A giant 1 mile tall drew the Nazca lines and used that land as a whiteboard