![]() Its elongated head has no nose, no ears, and large, heavy-lidded eyes. A Hans Zimmer-esque score throbs, and a Russian-accented expert in “bioelectrography”-who elsewhere claims to have photographed the human soul escaping the body after death-declares the mummy “one of the most important discoveries of the 21st century.” The camera orbits the mummy, revealing that it has only three long fingers on each hand and three long toes on each foot. “Maria,” the “humanoid” mummy from the web series Unearthing Nazca (Screenshot from ) Its head is elongated like those of other pre-Columbian mummies, whose societies artificially shaped their children’s crania to achieve ideals of beauty or represent group belonging. It starts with what at first seems to be a typical seated Peruvian mummy, arms wrapped around its knees, like a child waiting for its parent. Since the series’ launch in June by -a website specializing in “conscious media, yoga, and more”-the teaser episode of Unearthing Nazca has been viewed 2.35 million times on YouTube alone. They worry that Unearthing Nazca is an archaeological snuff film in disguise. Archaeologists, who have been denied access to the mummy, worry that it is as old as the series’ creators claim, but that it is actually indigenous and Andean-a real human individual that has been mutilated to look like an alien. A web series named Unearthing Nazca purports to depict the investigation of a pre-Columbian and “humanoid” mummy. Now, Peruvian scientists are furious at a new and possibly pernicious permutation of the “ancient astronaut” theory. 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull put a new spin on this old tale, including, for good measure, the large-skulled aliens that pepper North American abduction stories. In 1968, Swiss author Erich von Däniken’s Chariots of the Gods? introduced the mainstream to the theory that the Nazca Lines, the massive geoglyphs in Southern Peru whose shapes are fully visible only from the air, were landing strips for “ancient astronauts.” Archaeologists calmly disagree, positing that they were astronomical designs that turned the desert itself into an observatory, or counter constellations matching the dark spaces in the Milky Way, or, more abstractly, cosmological figures meant to be seen by skyward deities, of which ancient Peru had many. ![]() Peruvian archaeologists are tired of debunking claims of extraterrestrial influence on human history.
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