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