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The Nazca Lines and Indiana Jones

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Video description: Paramount has released yet another new movie trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. One of the shots that is worth noting involves a plane flying over the Nazca Lines (seen above), one of Peru's main tourist attractions. "Once the archaeologist is thrust back into danger, the signature Indiana Jones red line tracing across the map will take him to New Mexico, Connecticut, Mexico City and the jungles of Peru."

The Nazca Lines (Nasca Lines), are a set of zoomorphic, phytomorphic and geometric figures (lines, triangles, trapezoids, circles, spirals, birds, a spider, a monkey, flowers) that appear engraved in the surface of the Nazca desert, a high arid plateau that stretches 37 miles between the towns of Nazca and Palpa on a large flat area of southern Peru. The Nazca Lines are one of the mysteries of the ancient world. They are the most outstanding group of geoglyphs (drawings on the ground) in the world.

 

See also: Nazca Lines, Nazca Lines and the British archaeologists of University of Bristol

 

Nazca Lines and Indiana Jones

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Last updated: April 19, 2009