recently last month , anthropologist Robert Benfer harbinger that he and his squad of researchers had discoveredseveral enormous , earth - mould animal physical body in Peru , including the orca - shaped mound you see up top . Now , thanks to some ingenious tribe over atGoogle Earth Blog , you’re able to actually explore two of these cumulus for yourself .
First , some background . The animal - form mound we ’re blab about admit a giant condor , an orca , a duck , and a crouch monster that Benfer says shares a semblance with rock carvings of caiman and puma that have been discovered throughout the coastal regions of Peru . archaeologic grounds advise that some of them have stood for more than 4,000 years .
The effigies are pretty tremendous , each one measuring anywhere from five to 400 meter in length , which may aid explain how they finagle to go unnoticed until now . Like the area ’s famousNazca line — a series of tremendous ground - drawings located in Peru ’s Nazca desert — the animal - form mounds are best consider from the sky . Benfer himself discover them while see artificial satellite photos .
Of naturally , the other explanation for why these mounds have gone unnoticed for so long could be that they are n’t animate being representations whatsoever . After all , wehumans have a bent for see things ( like animals ) that are n’t really there — particularly ingeologicalfeatures ; who ’s to say that the animate being - mounds Benfer has espy are n’t just , well , mounds ?
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For one thing , there are several of them . One mound in the physique of a duck’s egg ( pictured left halfway , click to enlarge ) is n’t enough evidence to say that these effigies were created intentionally ; but four mounds , all in the shape of creature important to the neighborhood , all along the Peruvian Coast ? That ’s a wad easier to believe .
Perhaps the most compelling evidence yet , however , is where the pitcher’s mound are located . Benfer describes the significance of the two heap featured here ( the condor and the crouching monster , render on the odd and veracious , respectively ):
Two mounds at El Paraíso as viewed from Google Earth Pro . Line A is from a temple whose central floor area was covered with charcoal to the ‘ centre of the condor ’ , also made of ash and charcoal gray . The alignment is 33.6 ° , the extreme of the Milky Way . Line B is across two elevate circular offering chambers to a deep-set circular chopine in the low-spirited pitcher . It has an alignment of 63.3 ° , approximately the June solstice break of the day .
Now , a reader over onGoogle Earth Bloghas track down the exact coordinates of the crouching monstrosity and condor mounds in Google Earth , so you could research them ( and their position relative to the synagogue mentioned by Benfer ) for yourself . For those of you who do n’t already have it , Click here to download Google Earth , thenclick hereto download the KML file , which will take you directly to the mounds .
So what say you ? Are these massive , prehistoric image , created to resemble creature significant to 2000BC - inhabitants of South America ? Or are they simply cumulus of dirt ?
learn more about Benfer ’s finding inAntiquity(no paywall ) .
All image via Benfer
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