[b] In-forming

- Nazca Lines

 

Works Cited

Text: Karen D. van Minnen

Video clip taken from: BBC Worldwide short documentary from World's Wonders series, produced by Andrew Luck and narrated by
Dominic Frisby.

 

(1) German-born Peruvian mathematician, archaeologist, and technical translator. She is known for her research into the Nazca Lines, which she discovered together with American historian Paul Kosok in 1940. Known as the "Lady of the Lines", Reiche made the documentation, preservation, and public dissemination of the Nazca Lines her life's work. The lines, first thought to have been irrigation ditches historian Paul Kosok and assistant mathematician and astronomer Maria Reiche, were later rearticulated after they discovered a marker for both the winter and summer solstice on one of the straight lines via the setting sun. A finding that led to redefining the geoglyphs “the largest astronomy book in the world”.

Reiche, Marie. The Nazca Lines: A New Perspective on their Origin and Meaning. Editorial Los Pinos, Lima, 1988.

 

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Daniel Stone, On Island of the Colorblind, Paradise Has a Different Hue, National Geographic, 2018

Photographs by Sanne de Wilde