Ten Mysterious Figures Seen From the Sky

Throughout history, humans have worked their lands utilizing various techniques in the hope of being seen from the sky they couldn’t reach.

10 The Paracas Candelabra, Peru

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Excavated on a sandy hillside overlooking Pisco Bay in central eastern Peru. It is perfectly aligned north to south and can be seen up to 19 km out to sea. Cut two feet into soil, it is believed to be the work of the pre-Incan Paracas people. Also called the Candelabra of the Andes, there is
much debate regarding what sort of candle it could represent.

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9 The Blythose Intaglios, USA

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In the Colorado Desert of California are a number of huge geoglyphs called the Intaglios, measuring more then 50 meters in length, which depict scenes of everyday life as well as more enigmatic ones, like the hunter walking upon the water. Made up of several dozen figures and a labyrinth, they are the only collective group of human-like geoglyph known in the world. Thought to have been made by Majave and Quechan Indians between 450 to 10,000 years ago, they are still shrouded in mystery.

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8 The Sajama Lines, Bolivia

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Located in the Sajama region of west Bolivia. Lines are a network of tens of thousands of nearly perfectly straight paths etched into the ground. Collectively covering an area of 22,525 km2, the web-like pattern is fifteen times larger than the area covered by the Nazca Lines, and they are considered the largest geoglyphs in the whole world, having been cut in the ground continuously for 3,000 years. Among several explanations, the lines and other figures are believed to have been made by indigenous people for sacred pilgrimages.

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7 The Harrat Geoglyphs, Jordan

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The eastern part of Jordan is a desolated place covered by a vast lava desert, the Harrat. But hidden in the middle of this hostile and inaccessible place covered with basalt stones are a large number of strange and varied figures that were only discovered in 2013.

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6 The Uffington Horse, England

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Located in the hills near Ufington, a little village in Oxfordshire, England is a highly stylized prehistoric hill figure, 110 meters long, formed from deep trenches filled with crushed white chalk. presumably created during the Iron Age, it is the oldest of the chalk figures in Britain and one of the most famous geoglyphs in the world. generally thought to represent a stylized horse the identity of this animal cannot be confirmed.

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5 The Atacania Giant, Chile

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The Atacama Desert is a plateau covering a 1,000 km strip of land on the Pacific coast. Over the past thirty years, archaeologist have discovered a rich heritage hiding in this vast and desolated place, including more than 5,000 prehistoric works of art placed on or worked into the landscape. Among them, el Giante de Atocama, the largest prehistoric human figure in the world, with a height of 119 meters. The figure is thought have served as an early astronomical calendar, used to determine where the mood would set.

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4 The Russian Geoglyph, Russia

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Thanks to the use of satellites, we today have access to some of the most historically inaccessible places, like the Ural Mountains. On a Google Earth image from 2007, curious traces were found on ground near the Lake Zjuratkul. Excavations of the area in 2012 uncovered a deeply buried structure make a large stones and a center filled with little rocks. The unknown creators drug away the soil layer down to virgin clay and put stones in the trench. When the dig ended, a strange figure appeared from the sky, stretching for 275 meters. It had four legs, two horns, and an abnormally long muzzle, making it look a unusual type of elk. Thought to date from the Neolithic Era, it is one of the oldest examples of land art in the world.

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3 The Utah Geoglyphs, USA

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Canyonlands National Park in southeastern Utah is home to many colorful canyons, where the Fremont and Anasazi people left lots of amazing artwork nearly a thousand years ago. The people that lived here thought the ages are known to have been very creative painters and authors of strange pictograms. When abstract figures of unknown meaning were discovered nearby, the Fremont and Anasazi were logically thought to be the creators, but there is yet no clear evidence of who actually made these when…. and why.

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2 The Nazca Astronaut, Peru

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Discovered accidentally during an airplane flight in 1927, the Nazca lines instantly become a hot topic around the world. The enormous figures that were found have puzzled archeologists for a long time, and are now thought to have been a complex irrigation system associated with a cult of Nature. But one figure sands on a hillside apart from the others, The Nazca Astronaut, created approximately 1,500 years ago. Also called The Owl-Man, what this entity represents and its purpose are still widely discussed mysteries.

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1 Amazonian Rainforest Geoglyphs, Brazil

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The Amazonian Rainforest has always been suspected to be a place hiding many mysteries and as deforestation continues to ruin wild, archaeologists are finally able to access to some of them. More than 300 ancient geoglyphs have been discovered in the state of Arce since the 1970s. They are thought to be the work on a lost pre-columbian civilization, but their purpose remains unknown.
The mysterious geometric forms carved in the land are of major historical significance, even thought many other wonders have been lost in the process of their discovery.