Manuel Toribio Mejía Xesspe (April 16, 1896 - November 2, 1983) was a Peruvian archaeologist and student of Julio César Tello. He discovered the
Nazca Lines in 1926 or 1927.
Biography
Mejía Xesspe was born in Toro, a district of the La Unión province, Arequipa department.
Reports differ on the specific year, but in either 1926 or 1927 Mejía Xesspe discovered locations of the
Nazca Lines while hiking in the foothills of the surrounding area. He then discussed them at a conference in Lima in 1939.
Mejía Xesspe died in Lima, due to a congenital disease of the spleen.
See also
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Nazca culture
The Nazca culture (also Nasca) was the archaeological culture that flourished from beside the arid, southern coast of Peru in the river valleys of the Nazca, Rio Grande de Nazca drainage and the Ica Valley.''The Nasca'' by Helaine Silverman an ...
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1896 births
1983 deaths
20th-century archaeologists
Peruvian archaeologists
Nazca Lines
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