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Nazca
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Naz·ca  (näzk, näskä)
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A pre-Incan civilization that flourished on the southern coast of Peru from about 200 b.c. to about a.d. 600, known for its polychrome vessels decorated with stylized designs and for the enormous drawings of geometric and zoomorphic forms etched in the desert floor 200 miles south of Lima.

[After Nazca, city in southern Peru.]


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Giuseppe Orefici, director of the Nasca Project, said that the archaeologists had to remove a layer or reeds and ropes that covered the burial.
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