Torrential rains fallen Sunday on this Peruvian region have damaged five of the figures, pertaining to cultures preIncas and only visible from the air. Among them they are two of most well-known: The Hands and the Heron. The flaws, point the archaeologists of the National Institute of Culture (INC.) of Peru, are “repairable and reversible”. The archaeologist of the INC. Mario Olaechea indicated that intense rains, known in the zone like huaicos, generated a mud sliding that reached to the figures, producing an alteration that, nevertheless, is remediable. “The water has left deposited an argillaceous off-white earth layer, that gives another color him to the figures”, it added to France Presse.

Emma Susana Maple, person in charge of the INC. one in the region of Ica, where the geoglifos are located, one of the archaeological majors enigmas in the world, traveled Tuesday to the zone with a group of experts to realise a first report. Although it assured that it is soon for knowing how long and how much money will cost to repair the damages caused by “one of the registered most serious huaicos” in the region, Maple was convinced that the repair of the figures is possible.

Turned into one of main attractive the tourist ones of the south of Peru and declared by UNESCO Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity in 1994, the Lines of Are born are attributed to the settlers of the culture Is born that they a.d. inhabited this region between year 200 before Christ and the 700. Still today it is an enigma to know how those towns managed to draw up those drawings of great size with such precision. The depth of the lines never exceeds the 30 centimeters; technically they are perfect and they are testimony of a great geometric knowledge of the old inhabitants of the zone.

The Lines of Are born, redescubiertas for the scientific world by Toribio Mejia Xesspe in 1927, are composed by several hundreds of drawings that include as simple designs as lines and triangles until complex zoomorfas figures, fitomorfas and geometric that appears drawn up in the surface.

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