Maria Reiche Planetarium, at the Hotel Nazca Lines, offers nightly lectures based on Reiche’s archaeological and astronomical theories about the lines’ origins and purpose.
Chauchilla is an ancient cemetery 19 miles (30km) from Nazca that was long ago sacked by grave robbers, who left sun-bleached bones, skulls, mummies, pieces of cloth and pottery shards strewn in the desert sand.