Truck damages Peru's ancient Nazca lines

[Judi Lynn]

January 30, 2018

Peru's ancient Nazca lines were damaged when a driver accidentally plowed his cargo truck into the fragile archaeological site in the desert, officials said Tuesday.

The lines, considered a UNESCO World Heritage site, are enormous drawings of animals and plants etched in the ground some 2,000 years ago by a pre-Inca civilization. They are best seen from the sky.

The driver ignored warning signs as he entered the Nazca archaeological zone on January 27, the Ministry of Culture said in a statement.

The truck "left deep prints in an area approximately 100 meters long," damaging "parts of three straight lined geoglyphs," the statement read.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-truck-peru-ancient-nazca-lines.html#jCp

Please see images of Nazca Lines:

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[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Perhaps the only surprising thing is that this hasn't happened

long before now.