...Close enough! The Palpa valley is where the newest discovery of 1,000 more have been found:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...eruglyphs.html
The Geoglyphs etched into the desert have been dated from 200BC-600AD and could only be viewed by airplane which is what happened in 1935 but it's always been a mystery as to why and how these were done so accurately.
In 2002 (or 3), a thousand more of these were found and, answering much of the mysterious "why" surrounding these, it was determined that, 1) they were sacred landscapes of art to honor water and fertility (since this is the driest desert on earth). Artifacts were found with the same art (which rules out alien runways lol). And 2) the "how" was determined by the findings of posts whereby they would tie strings from post to post and follow smaller drawings nearby.
Last year, human remains from 5,000 years ago were also discovered in the Atacama desert believed to be the beginning of civilization there.
WTG Nick!...you're up next!
