Who Carved These Mysterious Lines in the Desert?
Season 49
Episode 17
About the Episode
The Nazca were an ancient group of farmers and fishermen that used desert plateaus as a canvas for giant geoglyphs. But some of these drawings pre-date the Nazca. Who created them and why?
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