The Nazca Lines In Peru,

has had scientist and archaeologist,        

 trying to unravel their meanings for years, and now it gets even more complicated, a trio of Japanese researchers—Masaki Eda of the Hokkaido University Museum, Takeshi Yamasaki of Yamashina Institute for Ornithology, and Masato Sakai of Yamagata University—have now revealed that many of the birds in question were previously misidentified, one of the birds in question was the hummingbird, which if correctly identified turns out to be a hermit, a bird not known anywhere near the Nazca Lines in Peru, above, the Nazca lines hummingbird but now considered to be a hermit, photograph by Fabien M. CC by 2.0,

among the 16 massive bird carvings in the Nazca desert of southern Peru are a hermit (a forest species) and a pelican (a coastal bird), according to research published in June 2019 in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, the figure of a “hummingbird” is now considered to be a hermit, which is a close relation to a hummingbird but not found the areas where the Nazca lines were created, due to its long and thin bill, short legs, three toes facing the same direction, and the long tail with an elongated middle section, the previously identified hummingbird (Geoglyph No. PV68A-CF1) is re-classified as a hermit, in Peru, long and pointed tails only occur in hermits whereas the tails of typical hummingbirds are forked or fan-shaped. (Eda M., Yamasaki ⁠T., Sakai M. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. June 20, 2019), so the mystery of the lines instead of being made clearer is actually becoming even more complex, did the people of Nazca travel much more widely than previously thought?