Nazca Lines
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Oct 12, 2026
Allison GillHOST
Now, in April, contractors hired by the Trump administration to make way for a second wall along the Arizona-Mexico border scraped a 50-foot swath through the ancient carving according to the Center for Biological Diversity, which documented the damage.
Allison GillHOST
The intaglio on the ground of the ancestral homeland of the Tohono O'odham and other indigenous tribes was estimated to be about 2,000 years older than Egypt's first pyramid, and to have been created about 1,500 years before the first construction of Stonehenge, and 4,000 years before Peru's Nazca Lines.
Allison GillHOST
That's what researchers have found.
Allison GillHOST
The formerly 272-foot carving had originally been thought to be about 1,000 years old, but new research dates the art's creation to at least 6,500 years ago, and possibly as much as 7,500 years ago.
Frank RogalaGUEST
Well, I'm going to go, I can tell you about Graham.
Frank RogalaGUEST
We're going to go to over the Nazca lines and helicopter too.
Frank RogalaGUEST
So, I mean, I'll make some exceptions.
Frank RogalaGUEST
You got a lot
Brandon WrightHOST
Right
Citizen DeeGUEST
... and the, the Nazca Lines.
Citizen DeeGUEST
I think it's, it was like a, like a com- I think these were like memorials more th- to, to like point to future generations, "This is what's, this is what's important here." And I think we've lost it.
Citizen DeeGUEST
I think we've lost it now.
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He argues the field often behaves more like a religion than a discipline built on testable repetition, and that institutional authority is sometimes used to silence outsiders, which brings them to lost civilizations, especially in South America.
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Paracas, the Nazca Lines, megalithic sites, sky visible symbols, all discussed as evidence that ancient people may have been far more advanced than mainstream timelines allow.
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Richards says it makes you wonder what reality was like for them, especially when looking at the art, skull modifications, and engineering.
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There's also this recurring concern about missing objects, destroyed burial grounds, private collections, and information that seems to disappear online.
Diana MaAra DivineHOST
So why some of these ancient civilizations, they build their megalithic sites usually next to these UVGs where all those nodes come together.
Diana MaAra DivineHOST
Like the Giza Pyramid, the Nazca Lines, we will see them all in these geometric points.
Dan ShawGUEST
There are quite a number of these.
Dan ShawGUEST
This pattern has 62 points, and it is key to the Nile Delta there, just north of the Great Pyramid actually.
Chris FlynnHOST
there we go.
Chris FlynnHOST
He's had a huge interest in the paranormal, and he's always loved the subject, loved all things magical and mysterious, Tibet, Bigfoot, Loch Ness, Findhorn, UFO, Nazca Lines, spirits, Salem, East arousal, [chuckles] East Island, dowsing, Greek gods, Hindu gods, yogis, Himalayas, Shambhala, aura, divinations, Delphic Oracles, Tibetan Oracles, nature spirits, Pan, shamans, and more.
Chris FlynnHOST
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Chris FlynnHOST
So-
David WhitleyGUEST
Little known to most people, I believe, is the fact that there are a series of large earth figures, what we call technically intaglios, in southern Arizona and eastern, southeastern California, found on desert pavements, which are surfaces covered with gravel, basically.
David WhitleyGUEST
I think everyone has probably heard of the Nazca lines.
David WhitleyGUEST
And those, of course, down in Peru are famous because people argued that they'd been made to to communicate with with aliens, which is nonsense.
David WhitleyGUEST
But what we have in this region is very similar.
David WhitleyGUEST
And even more, I mean, contextually, Stonehenge was built about 5,000 years ago.
David WhitleyGUEST
The Egyptian pyramids were the earliest ones about 4,500 years ago.
David WhitleyGUEST
And the Nazca Lines are at most 1,500 years old.
David WhitleyGUEST
So this is substantially older than all of these things.
Steve StocktonHOST
We're going out into the absolute dead silence of the Nazca Desert.
Steve StocktonHOST
Now, to understand the sheer, eerie impossibility of the Nazca Lines, you first have to understand the canvas they were drawn on.
Steve StocktonHOST
The Pampa de Nazca is one of the driest, most unforgiving places on God's green earth.
Steve StocktonHOST
The air out there is so dry it'll crack your lips before you've even set up your tent.
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Steve StocktonHOST
Did the Nazca people see something come down from the clouds in a chariot of fire? Did they encounter beings who commanded the sky, and did they spend the next five centuries carving giant landing strips and massive animal totems into the dirt, desperately trying to signal those beings to return? If you carve a spider the size of a city block, friend, you aren't trying to talk to your neighbors.
Steve StocktonHOST
You're trying to talk to the stars.
Steve StocktonHOST
Today, tourists with expensive cameras climb into little single-engine Cessna planes and buzz over the Nazca lines like a swarm of gnats.
Steve StocktonHOST
We look down at the monkey and the condor through our scratched plastic windows.
Joseph W. PhippsHOST
We might be able to use this for comparison to Earth's similar structures and, and their purposes.
Joseph W. PhippsHOST
But what is not clear is whether the spectacle is meant to be seen from the air like our Nazca Lines or seen from the ground like in Carnac.
Joseph W. PhippsHOST
Because very brilliantly laid out here, it seems to be both.
Joseph W. PhippsHOST
Uh, was this an accident? Some really, really long game type of thinking ahead.
Jay ScherickHOST
Can, could you be specific about, uh, one example, uh, uh, what you're referring to, if you don't mind, something that our listeners might know about and can refer back to?
Daniel ScrantonGUEST
The Nazca Lines, the pyramids of-
Jay ScherickHOST
Ah
Daniel ScrantonGUEST
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