Photographs of May-June 2008 Peru Expedition. Flying over mysterious Nasca Lines.

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Photographs of May-June 2008 Peru Expedition

Flying over mysterious Nasca Lines

Nasca pottery often depicts a fairer-skinned people and a darker-skinned people. Jose Antonini Museum, Nasca. Peru

Central Nasca Temple

Temples at Caral, the oldest civilization in the Americas

Trail from Cuzco to fortress of Sacsahuaman, Cuzco, Peru.

Fortress & Temple of Sacsahuaman

Inca Throne at Sacsahuaman, with large seat and 12 seats on its sides.

Black stone walls are the remains of the central Inca temple (The Coricancha), Cuzco, Peru

Model shows the gold-lined walls of the Coricancha Temple, Cuzco.

Replica of the Inca Golden Altar. Does this altar depict Lehi’s dream of the Tree of Lehi? Coricancha, Cuzco

Inca food storage facility, Rachi, Peru. The Incas believed their god taught them to store food.

Temple walls at Pukara, Peru

Pukara Temple

Initial excavations at Pukara indicate that the city burned.

La Raya Pass, the highest point on our trip-- 14,300 feet above sea level.

Lake Titicaca – 12,500 feet above sea level.

1 of 3 doors leading to the altar of the white god Viracocha, Isle of the Sun, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia.

Altar to Viracocha, Isle of the Sun, Lake Titicaca.

Temple of the bearded white god Viracocha, Isle of the Sun, Lake Titicaca.

French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau discovered a sunken city between the three small islands, Isle of the Sun, Lake Titicaca.

What do these pictures mean to the Book of Mormon? Watch for my new book, Nephi in the Promised Land. Thank You George Potter