秘鲁再添未解之谜 这25幅神秘地画代表什么？

The latest line drawings discovered by archeologists in Peru show geometric figures portraying humans, apes and a whale, according to a report published in National Geographic.

根据国家地理杂志发布的一份报告，秘鲁考古学家最新发现了多个绘制成人、猿和鲸鱼地画。

Twenty-five images of the previously undocumented line drawings — so-called geoglyphs, or "ground drawings" — in Palpa province in southern Peru were taken from drones, said Peruvian archeologist Johny Isla Cuadrado in the Peruvian daily, "El Comercio."

秘鲁南部帕尔帕省的秘鲁考古学家约翰尼斯拉库拉多说，在秘鲁南部的帕尔帕省，无人机拍下了有25幅之前没有见过的地画。

Scientists flew the drones over the region about 30 meters above the ground, and spotted 50 geoglyphs – 25 were unknown, while the local population was aware of the other 25 drawings.

科学家们将无人机飞到离地面30米高的地方，共发现了50个地质线条-其中25个是未知的，而当地居民则知道另外25幅图。

Researchers hope that documenting the newly found line art will give them new insight into the area’s ancient cultures.

研究人员希望，记录新发现的线条艺术将使他们对该地区的古代文化有新的认识。

Cuadrado said the massive drawings seem to point at "a tradition of over a thousand years that precedes the famous geoglyphs of the Nasca culture, and which opens the door to new hypotheses about its function and meaning."

Cuadrado说，这些巨大的图画可能要比著名的纳斯卡文化地质印痕早一千年，这为这些地画的功能和意义打开了新的假设。”

Archeologists believe the Palpa drawings were created by the Paracas and Topara cultures between 500 BC and 200 AD, which would make them older by many centuries than the famous Nasca lines in the neighboring Nasca Valley.

考古学家认为，帕尔帕的地画是由帕拉卡斯和托帕拉文化在公元前500年到公元200年之间创造的，这将使他们比邻近的纳斯卡山谷中著名的纳斯卡线条更古老。

And unlike the renowned Nasca sketches that were etched into the high desert sand and are only visible from above, the Palpa geoglyphs were found on the slopes of the region’s hills, meaning they can also be observed from the ground.

不同于绘制在高沙漠地带、只能从上空观察到的著名纳斯卡线条，这些地画被刻在了高沙漠的沙地上，而且只能从上面看到，帕尔帕的地质印痕位于山腰上，即使在地面上也可以观察到。