Drawings And Marks On The Earth There are a lot of places on earth which contain mysterious marks and symbols. Sometimes we don’t know what they mean and we may not know who created them. There are cases where different designs appear which were put there by humans recently. It turns out there are a few artists who like to create huge works of what they call art and sometimes they appear in remote places. It has gotten easier to tell when this happens, because we can now view these areas as they looked in the past and if these creations are not there when the photo was taken we know they are recent. An example of this is a giant swirling design which was created in a desert in Egypt. Three artists had taken the time to create this large work. Another example appeared in Cyprus. A giant Turkish flag was created in the landscape. Aside from these modern examples, there are quite a few others some of which we can't even accurately date, because they are so old. Great examples of ancient lines which have been carved into the earth appear in the Nazca Desert in Peru. Gigantic drawings of animals and geometric figures appear all over the desert. If you are at ground-level, you might not even notice them, because they are too large to be taken in by your eyes. This is not true when they are being observing from the air. It seems they were created to be seen from the air and yet it is believed they were created somewhere between 500 BC and 500 A.D. We know there was nothing in the air in those days so archaeologists have assumed these figures were created so the gods could see them and where are god’s located, they are located in the sky. Some of the figures which were created were of a giant monkey, a hummingbird and a condor, just to mention a few. It was relatively easy to make these figures since the desert has some sort of lighter material under its surface and when you scrape the sand away the lighter material becomes visible. While the mechanical part was easy to do, creating figures on the ground which cannot be seen on the ground must have been a chore indeed.
There is a mile long band of holes in Peru and some scientists attribute this to the Incas. There have been many guesses on what these holes represent and why there were made. One guess by scientists is these holes were somehow used to figure rates of exchange. Others guess the holes may have been created as a way of gathering water. There are believed to be about six thousand. Scientists have been wondering about these holes for a long time and as you can see they still don’t agree on what they were for. We talk about other planets containing strange surface features and many of us never give a thought to what might be here on our own planet. There are many mysterious things on the earth and some are so mysterious we really don’t know much about them. I am only talking about things that are on land and since our planet is mostly water who knows what we might find one day when we explore the oceans. Very little of the oceans has been explored today.
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