Chile - Ecuador - Galapagos Island - Peru
Apr. 05, 1976 - Riddle of Dessert drawing's solved after 2, 000 years; A German born Miss Maria Reiche, aged 73, who has lived for 30 years in the Peruvian dessert 300 miles south East of Lima, claimed yesterday that she had tracked down the unit of measurement used by the Nazca artists 200 years ago to trace out the huge wildlife drawings five miles across and carved out before the Nazca people were absorbed into the Inca empire are an achievement to the building of the Pyramids Miss Reiche self appointed archaelogical guardian is in London for an exhibition of her work which opens on Wednesday for a month at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Photo Shows Miss Maria Reiche holding an aerial picture in a London Hotel yesterday of one of the geometric patterns created in the Peruvian desert 2000 years ago. After 30 years on the spot study of the designs she believes that they are based on a unit of measurement of 1 meter 35 cm
