‘Deep Scars’ as Trucker Drives Across Peru’s 2,000-Year-Old Nazca Lines
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‘Deep Scars’ as Trucker Drives Across Peru’s 2,000-Year-Old Nazca Lines
The site was created between 500 B. C.
and A. D. 500, and is the world’s best-known example of geoglyphs — large designs created by
arranging rocks or altering the landscape — that depict animals, plants and other figures.
In this week’s episode, the truck driver diverted off the highway, past signs indicating the preserved status of the site,
and left “deep scars” in an area of more than 100 feet by 300 feet
A 2,000-year-old United Nations World Heritage Site in Peru was damaged this week when a trucker intentionally drove his tractor-trailer off a roadway
that runs through the protected historic area, the authorities said.
The truck driver, Jainer Jesús Flores Vigo, was arrested
and is expected to be charged with an “attack against cultural heritage,” according to the government-owned news outlet Andina.
The site was created between 500 B. C.
and A. D. 500, and is the world’s best-known example of geoglyphs — large designs created by
arranging rocks or altering the landscape — that depict animals, plants and other figures.
In this week’s episode, the truck driver diverted off the highway, past signs indicating the preserved status of the site,
and left “deep scars” in an area of more than 100 feet by 300 feet
A 2,000-year-old United Nations World Heritage Site in Peru was damaged this week when a trucker intentionally drove his tractor-trailer off a roadway
that runs through the protected historic area, the authorities said.
The truck driver, Jainer Jesús Flores Vigo, was arrested
and is expected to be charged with an “attack against cultural heritage,” according to the government-owned news outlet Andina.