NASCA - 8th Wonder of the World ?

New Hardback by the British Museum. 257 unmarked pages. Fascinating and well researched.
The Nasca lines - giant ground drawings that cover 400 square miles of the floor of southern Peru's coastal desert have been called the Eighth Wonder of the World. Vast tracings of birds, animals and plants; a man 100 metres tall with owl-like eyes, his arm raised beckoning to us from a hillside; dozens of spirals, zig-zags, triangles and trapezoids, and thousands of mile-long straight lines crisscrossing the dry wasteland, these 'geoglyphs' have hitherto defied explanation. Can they be effigies of ancient animal gods, or patterns of constellations? Are they roads, star pointers, maybe even a gigantic map of the world? If the people who lived here nearly 2,000 years ago had no technology, how did they manage to construct such precise figures?

Anthony Aveni and a team of archaeologists, engineers and surveyors have spent over ten years investigating this enigma, and this book tells the story of their discoveries. Embracing and incorporating all earlier attempts to decode the meaning of the lines, the principal theories about how they were made and what function they served. this is the definitive work on the mystery of Nasca.