Maria Reiche is an indissociable name of the lines of Nazca. This German mathematician born in Dresden in 1903 arrived at Peru in 1932, worked for the German consulate with Cuzco and became seven years later the assistant of Paul Kosok. Reiche was quickly impassioned by these lines and decided to devote body and heart to it. It desdia indeed about thirty years of its life to as well making known as to study and try to save this rich person legacy of the past. In the beginning, people believed that it was quite simply insane. They observed this strange lady only venture in the desert with a small brush to clean the lines and to at dawn compile data until the light of the twilight. It tried to explain why these lines are in correlation with the position of certain stars and that they represent a kind of calendar astrological. It continued its research inlassablement and gave conferences to the hotel Nazca Lines, where it placed before going to live in Lima because of its advanced age.
The year 1989 was terrible for Reiche: the atrocious Parkinson's disease struck it wildly. Little time afterwards, a glaucome removed the sight to him.
She died on June 8, 1998, at the 95 years age.