The Nazca Solution

The Nazca Solution team would like to welcome you to our portal and hope that you find its contents intriguing. 

For many of us the mysteries of the past have inspired awe and wonder, presenting questions which encourage investigation and exploration. 

The Nazca Great Circle Map Hypothesis and its experimental proof, presented here, is the result of our ongoing and open investigation.

As a map, the Nazca Lines hold within them the imprint of the unique perspective of those who charted it. As a map of the Earth, that perspective—a global perspective—seems to have been as relevant in the distant past as it is today.

The Nazca Lines Map

VISUAL summary of the Nazca Great Circle Map Hypothesis: the blueprint of the Nazca Lines look like this:

and this 2-Dimensional Nazca Great Circle Map translates into a 3-Dimensional projection:

There’s a complete, interactively rotatable Object VR Nazca Earth on our Virtual Nazca Earth page

VERBAL summary of the Nazca Great Circle Map Hypothesis:

The enormous long lines and figures drawn on the Nazca Plateau represent a map of Earth. In a similar way that a flat Mercator map represents the spherical Earth, the two- dimensional lines of the Nazca map represent three-dimensional circles called great circles. These circles can be imagined as invisible rings that encircle the Earth. Most of the straight lines at Nazca radiate from 5 locations on the plateau. The figures of animals and other shapes, called geoglyphs, are like place names on modern maps indicating specific regions of the Earth. Using the figures one can determine the 5 locations on Earth that are represented by the 5 locations on the plateau, and convert the long straight lines of the map into great circles around the Earth.

Once the lines are converted into great circles, a pattern emerges. Under the path of these great circles—in “alignment” with them—are the Earth’s major volcanoes, impact craters and ancient monuments. Submerged ancient structures may also form part of the pattern, as most that have been found, although few in number, seem to be beneath the paths of the great circles of the Nazca map.

A great circle of ancient sites

The central and principal great circle of the map was initially discovered by Jim Alison, independently and empirically without use of the Nazca great circle map. We call this great circle: the GREAT CYCLOPEAN CIRCLE, we find many of the world’s amazing ancient monuments and cradles of civilization aligned in its path in what is called a “great circle alignment”. Use touch screen or mouse to rotate the ObjectVR file below. Name of location in center screen displays in the upper left region of the viewer.

See more details in an interactively rotatable view on our Virtual Nazca Earth page

The work is divided into three sections:

Part I: The Nazca Great Circle Map Hypothesis. Explains how to read the Nazca map and convert it into its three- dimensional great circle form.

Part II: The Random Simulation Experiment – A Statistical Analysis of The Nazca Great Circle Map-Plateau. Presents the proof of the hypothesis using the Random Simulation Experiment. The Random Simulation is a computer program which tests the great circles of the map for alignment with the major volcanoes, impact craters and ancient monuments of Earth by comparison with random great circles.

Part III: The Geoglyphic Code. Presents the visual evidence that the Nazca geoglyphs represent topographic and bathymetric contours of certain parts of Earth’s surface, similar to the contour drawing style of common maps.

You can view the entire construct on our Virtual Nazca Earth Map, which uses Google Maps to graphically present the lines as Great Circles. It also shows all the locations that we tested in our simulation experiment.

Below is a short video where we visually explain the key concepts. It may be useful to view this before diving into the Hypothesis. We also have an Introduction page which provides background information on various relevant topics such as the Nazca Plateau itself, the physical nature of the Nazca lines, the work of Dr. Maria Reiche, portolan maps, and more.