Nevertheless, no one knows why the lines were made. The famed Nazca Lines in Peru depict birds, cats and other animals, and have been studied by modern archaeologists since the 1920s. The purposes of other geoglyphs around the world remain unexplained, as well. For now, the researchers added, the lines need to be protected they have already been damaged by vehicles cutting across them since the 2014 satellite images were taken. The final stone is a sati stone, which was erected to memorialize a widow who threw herself on her husband's funeral pyre after his death in battle.īut old carvings and memorials are common in the Thar Desert, the researchers wrote, so the stones may have had little to do with the geoglyphs around them. Three of the structures are rock cairns, four are carved memorial stones with inscriptions that are still being studied and three others are simple rectangular stones used for memorials or landmarks. There are a total of nine stone structures in and around the lines the largest is a pillar just over 5 feet (1.6 m) tall. The 25 most mysterious archaeological discoveries on Earth Photos: Circular geoglyphs discovered in Peru There is also another small spiral and a number of faint lines nearby, suggesting that the geoglyphs were once much larger. Nearby is a serpent-shaped line that's 6.8 miles (11 km) long and the boustrophedon-style pattern, which consists of 23 nearly parallel lines. The largest of the geoglyphs is a giant spiral covering 0.05 square miles (0.13 square kilometers), which would measure 7.5 miles (12 km) if stretched out into a straight line. "he shape of the lines are not fields," the Oethemiers wrote to Live Science. The area is uncultivated, the Oetheimers told Live Science, with no available water for irrigation nearby the land is currently used to graze goats and sheep. That older age would put them in line with the age of the memorial stones found nearby. Based on weathering and the sparse vegetation growth in and around the lines, the researchers estimate that the designs are around 150 years old, or perhaps as old as 200 years.
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