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EPISODE · Mar 23, 2026 · 23 MIN

THE NAZCA LINES: PRAYERS IN THE DESERT

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Episode 18 - History's Mysteries — Unexplained EventsIn this Mystery episode we focus on the Nazca Lines — over 800 straight lines, 300 geometric shapes, and 70 animal drawings etched into the Peruvian desert 2,000 years ago, so large they can only be seen from the air, made by a people with no aircraft.This episode covers who the Nazca were, how they actually made the lines with simple tools, what the latest research suggests they were for, and why a German mathematician named Maria Reiche gave 40 years of her life to understanding and protecting them.We may never know exactly what they meant. But we know they meant something.#HistoryMystery #NazcaLines #UnsolvedMysteries #AncientHistory #MysteryPodcast

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