[escepticos] RV: Maria Reiche--obituary

["Alfonso López Borgoñoz" <borgonoz@...>]

Ha muerto Maria Reiche, una de las investigadoras más conocidas de los
restos de Nazca.

Alfonso López Borgoñoz
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De: Brendan Frost <Brendan_Frost en CCH.COM>
Para: HASTRO-L en WVNVM.WVNET.EDU <HASTRO-L en WVNVM.WVNET.EDU>
Fecha: martes 9 de junio de 1998 20:26
Asunto: Maria Reiche--obituary


>"Maria Reiche, 95, a German mathematician who dedicated half a century
>to protecting and studying massive ancient drawings in the Peruvian desert,
>died June 8 at a hospital (in Lima). She had stomach cancer and Parkinson's
>disease...
>
>Ms. Reiche, who became a Peruvian citizen in 1994, invested all her money
>to preserve the lines. She earned international respect for her theories
>that the
>Nasca peoples (700 B.C. to 900 A.D.) used the drawings' alignment with the
>sun as a calendar."
>
>quoted without permission from Washington Post, June 9, 1998