Page 47 - Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock

Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

The principal figures of the Nazca plateau.
The majority of the designs are spread out across a clearly defined area
of southern Peru bounded by the Rio Ingenio to the north and the Rio
Nazca to the south, a roughly square canvas of dun-coloured desert with
forty-six kilometres of the Pan-American highway running obliquely
through it from top-centre to bottom right. Here, scattered apparently at
random, are literally hundreds of different figures. Some depict animals
and birds (a total of eighteen different birds). But far more take the form
of geometrical devices in the form of trapezoids, rectangles, triangles and
straight lines. Viewed from above, these latter resemble to the modern
eye a jumble of runways, as though some megalomaniac civil engineer
had been licensed to act out his most flamboyant fantasies of airfield
design.
It therefore comes as no surprise, since humans are not supposed to
have been able to fly until the beginning of the twentieth century, that
the Nazca lines have been identified by a number of observers as landing
strips for alien spaceships. This is a seductive notion, but Nazca is
perhaps not the best place to seek evidence for it. For example, it is
difficult to understand why extra-terrestrials advanced enough to have
crossed hundreds of light years of interstellar space should have needed

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