“The sight held me spellbound…I could scarcely believe my senses…Would anyone believe what I had found?” --Hiram Bingham, 1911

 
An enormous “Nazca Line” as seen from the air on Peru’s SW desert coast; the Nazca civilization, known for its complex weavings, beautiful pottery, and the “Nazca Lines,” visible only from high above the ground, mysteriously collapsed around the middle of the first millennium, A.D.

Logging Caused Nazca Collapse 
BBC News
November 2, 2009
The ancient Nazca people of […]