Proving the point that any story that can draw on the
glamour of NASA and its space program, media this week are reporting on an
agreement reached whereby NASA will provide Peruvian authorities with radar imagery
of the Nasca Lines to help protect from damage.
The Lines and Geoglyphs of Nasca, scratched into Peru's
rocky coastal desert between 500 BCE and 500 CE, were named a world heritagesite in 1994 and are famously one of archaeology's great enigmas.
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| Aerial view of a Nasca geoglyhph depicting a monkey |
While the Nasca Lines have suffered damage over the years as
a result of human activity - including tourism - their protection became a
matter of international attention in the wake of an ill-fated protest in
support of renewable energy by the environmentalist organization Greenpeace in
2014, which allegedly disturbed the Lines.
Under the agreement, imagery will be shared on a no-cost
basis, allowing authorities to quickly spot potential threats to the Nasca
Lines, and hopefully address them before any damage is done.
Lima newspaper
El Comercio has given readers a sense of what the information to be provided
with the publication of an image showing one of the geoglyphs along with
apparent damage to the site.
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