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Mystery of the Nazca Lines

Over 1,500 years ago, the ancient Nazca Indians began to create a series of perfectly straight lines, geometric shapes and over 70 beautiful plants and creatures, ranging from a hummingbird, a dog and a running monkey to a cactus, a flower and a tree, across the dry plains between the Pacific coast of southern Peru and the Andean foothills.

The Peruvian archaeologist Toribio Mejía Xesspe was

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