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2 0 Experiments using pieces of string and marker stakes show it was neither laborious nor difficult to lay out a design.
3 0 Von Daniken based his extra-terrestrial theories on details misleadingly taken from what is clearly a huge figure of a bird.
12 0 A section through one of the impressive ancient underground aqueducts in the Nazca area, still in regular use.
12 1 Stone built circular inspection pit.
12 2 System of underground aqueducts.
11 0 Pottery often shows everyday scenes, like this pot depicting a swimming fisherman.
14 0 A colourful Nazca textile decorated with animals in a geometric arrangement.
15 0 The Paracas culture are famous for their lively and colourful textiles, like this one depicting stylized birds.
1 0 An aerial view of Cahuachi, showing pyramids, plazas, rooms - and the pits dug by looters of the graves.
5 0 A skull deliberately deformed in infancy, eroding out of a grave disturbed by looters.
6 0 The contents of a small bundle that belonged to a Nazca shaman, including small sculptures, one of a trophy head.
16 0 A pot in the form of the Anthropomorphic Mythical Being, decorated with severed heads.
4 0 Diagram showing the construction of raised fields like those at Pampa Koani.
7 0 A fine monolithic statue of a deity from Tiwanaku
17 0 The Gateway of the Sun from Tiwanaku, depicting the long-popular Staff God.
8 0 A colourful Huari pot
10 0 An aerial view of Pachacamac, showing temple pyramids, plazas and residential areas.
9 0 A Nazca pot depicting soldiers armed with darts.
18 0 A Tiwanaku pot in the shape of a jaguar.