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  • And back again in the Peruvian Pampa, to the arid prairies of Ingenio.

  • In 1939, Paul Kosok, a U.S. scientist, discovered some lines that disappeared into the horizon.

  • Not just lines, enormous drawings could be seen on the ground.

  • This is the skull collection at the Museum of Archeology in Lima.

  • Most are mal-formed.

  • For the pre-Incan culture a cone head and a flat forehead was a symbol of aristocracy.

  • It was not easy, but they managed to do it by placing two small boards, on the forehead and the nape,

  • which were gradually tightened

  • Almost better to be part of the common folk!

  • The lines and the drawings continue being a mystery "thanks" to the non-existing rain.

  • According to mathematician Maria Reiche, the lines and the drawings were the work of the Paracas and the Nazca.

  • The researcher spent 40 years of her life trying to solve the enigma.

  • The largest book on Astronomy in the world is drawn across the prairie by primitive cultures.

  • How did they draw them? Did they know how to fly?

  • A treatise on Astronomy lying across the Pan-American Highway.

  • Its significance remains a mystery.

And back again in the Peruvian Pampa, to the arid prairies of Ingenio.

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