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Graham Hancock – <strong>FINGERPRINTS</strong> <strong>OF</strong> <strong>THE</strong> <strong>GODS</strong><br />

The principal figures of the Nazca plateau.<br />

The majority of the designs are spread out across a clearly defined area<br />

of southern Peru bounded by the Rio Ingenio to the north and the Rio<br />

Nazca to the south, a roughly square canvas of dun-coloured desert with<br />

forty-six kilometres of the Pan-American highway running obliquely<br />

through it from top-centre to bottom right. Here, scattered apparently at<br />

random, are literally hundreds of different figures. Some depict animals<br />

and birds (a total of eighteen different birds). But far more take the form<br />

of geometrical devices in the form of trapezoids, rectangles, triangles and<br />

straight lines. Viewed from above, these latter resemble to the modern<br />

eye a jumble of runways, as though some megalomaniac civil engineer<br />

had been licensed to act out his most flamboyant fantasies of airfield<br />

design.<br />

It therefore comes as no surprise, since humans are not supposed to<br />

have been able to fly until the beginning of the twentieth century, that<br />

the Nazca lines have been identified by a number of observers as landing<br />

strips for alien spaceships. This is a seductive notion, but Nazca is<br />

perhaps not the best place to seek evidence for it. For example, it is<br />

difficult to understand why extra-terrestrials advanced enough to have<br />

crossed hundreds of light years of interstellar space should have needed<br />

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