There are over 5,000 prehistoric geoglyphs in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, and like the Nazca lines of Peru, they are mysterious, beautiful and awe-inspiring.
Although we can't know the entire reason they were built, researcher Luis Briones believes they are part sign post and part story-telling along a transportation network connecting the South American civilizations in combined commercial and religious travel led by caravans of llamas.
- The Geoglyphic Art of Chile's Atacama Desert, read more of this article
- "The geoglyphs of the north Chilean desert: an archaeological and artistic perspective”, source article by Luis Briones in Antiquity
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