Geoglyphs | Gentle Bedtime Reading for Sleep

I Can’t Sleep

Benjamin Boster & Glassbox Media

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Relax with this calm bedtime reading designed to ease insomnia and restless nights. Tonight’s soothing episode explores geoglyphs, the large designs and motifs created on the ground that can only be fully seen from above. You’ll learn about famous examples such as the Nazca Lines, their cultural significance, and the mysteries surrounding their purpose, all shared in Benjamin’s steady, peaceful narration. There’s no whispering or hypnosis—just tranquil, fact-filled storytelling to quiet your thoughts and reduce stress. Press play, settle in, and drift into restful and calming sleep. Want More? Request a Topic: https://www.icantsleeppodcast.com/request-a-topic Ad-Free Episodes: https://icantsleep.supportingcast.fm/ Shop Sleep-Friendly Products: https://www.icantsleeppodcast.com/sponsors Join the discussion on Discord: https://discord.gg/myhGhVUhn7 This content is derived from the Wikipedia article on Geoglyph, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. Read the full article: Wikipedia - Geoglyph. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to a Glassbox Media podcast.
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0:33.6	Welcome to the I Can't Sleep Podcast, where I help you drift off one fact at a time.
0:41.3	I'm your host, Benjamin Boster, and today's episode is about geoglyphs.
0:50.8	A geoglyph is a large design or motif, generally longer than four meters, produced on the ground
1:01.0	by durable elements of the landscape, such as stones, stone fragments, gravel, or earth.
1:18.7	A positive geoglyph is formed by the arrangement and alignment of materials on the ground,
1:29.3	in a manner akin to petroforms, while a negative geoglyph is formed by removing part of the natural ground surface to create differently colored or textured ground
1:33.3	in a manner akin to petroglyphs.
1:37.3	Geoglyphs are generally a type of land art and sometimes rock art.
1:46.1	A hill figure is created on a slope so that it can be seen from a distance.
1:54.1	Arguably the most famous geoglyphs are the Nazca lines in Peru.
2:10.6	The cultural significance of these geoglyphs for their creators remains unclear, despite many hypotheses.
2:22.3	Since the 1970s, numerous geoglyphs have been discovered on deforested land in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil, leading to claims about pre-Columbian civilizations.
2:28.3	Juan de Mard Diaz is accredited with first discovering the geoglyphs in 1977, and also
2:38.5	Ransi with furthering the discovery after flying over Akri.
2:45.6	Other areas with geoglyphs include megaliths in the Urals, South Australia. Marry Man, which is not ancient,
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