Atacama giant:The larges prehistoric representation

Atacama giant:The larges prehistoric representation

Sky world news /The Atacama Giant is a large anthropomorphic geoglyph in the Atacama Desert, Chile.

 

It is one out of nearly 5000 geoglyphs that have been discovered in the Atacama in the last three decades.

It is the largest prehistoric representation of a human figure in the world with the height of 119 metres 390 ft.

Its location is about 497 miles 800 kilometers south of the Peru's Nazca lines the best known geoglyphs in the world. Some believe that this particular geoglyph represents an extraterrestrial being that had contact thousands of years ago with humans in the area. According to academics, they are believed to have been created between AD 600 and AD 1500, although accurately dating geoglyphs has always been problematic, so their age cannot be concluded with any certainty.

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