Word: nazca
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...laid out with equal precision. In their midst are drawings of huge spiders, a giant nine-fingered monkey, birds, fish and reptiles, some of them so large they are recognizable only from the air. For decades these ancient patterns, spreading across 30 miles of Peru's desolate Nazca plain, have confounded archaeologists. Why were they so painstakingly etched out of the bleak mesa? Could they have been signals to the gods, or-as the current movie Chariots of the Gods? suggests-to extraterrestrial visitors...
...mile span, hugging the eastern slopes of the Andes and connecting with access roads pushing up from Peru's west coast. Belaúnde's engineers are already pushing penetration routes from the coastal town of Pisco to the mountain town of Ayacucho, from Nazca into Cuzco, from Puno down the rugged eastern slope of the Andes into the southern montana. Estimated cost: $400 million. Like Juscelino Kubitschek's Brasilia, the project will be years justifying itself. "But you know," ventures one Peruvian, "in a hundred years we might look awfully foolish...
...Barbara are the saints whose job it is to tame earthquakes. Perhaps they were caught napping. Or perhaps too few prayers had recently reached their ears. Last week in southern Peru a subterranean mutter grew into a growl. For almost three minutes the earth juggled the ancient town of Nazca, while houses crumbled. The nearby village of Palpa was flattened, as if by an iron, and a deathly ague shook Ica, toppling the steeple of the Church of Our Lord of Luren in a foam of dust. In Lima, 250 miles to the north, thousands who remembered the terrible quake...
...Peabody Museum Saturday placed on special exhibit on important collection of early Peruvian pottery, textiles and figurines recently acquired by the Museum through the generosity of an anonymous donor. The pieces date mostly from the Nazca period of around 1000 A.D., but there are also objects from other periods, including a polychrome vessel from the Parcas culture of 500 A.D. and a much later wool bag coming from the Inca culture and dating from about...
...collection includes, besides the Paracas polychrome jar in the shape of a human face, two early Nazca bags in rich reds and greens, one with a rythmic pattern of liamas, and a splendidly designed polychrome vessel with a painting of lima bean shoots on it. Another vessel is ornamented with a serpent pattern. A large female figures from Chancay shows the sophistication of Peruvian coastal art about 1200 A.D. Four smaller figurines showing costume types complete the collection. Also on exhibit is another object of great rarity at present on loan in the Museum. It is the figure...