Scientists Discover Geoglyphs Depicting Wild Animals and Humans, Sheds Light on the Customs of Nazca Civilization The Nazca Desert towards the south of Peru revealed multiple geoglyphs from the 1940s ...

Since then, researchers have found around 430 geoglyphs associated with the Nazca people. Now, an additional 303 geoglyphs have been discovered with the help of artificial intelligence.

These new lines join existing geoglyphs of a dog, hummingbird, condor and a monkey, thought to have been drawn by the ancient Nazca people between the 1st and 6th centuries. The geoglyph was ...

Staring out from a hillside, a hundred-foot-tall, owleyed figure may have been made by the Paracas people, who occupied the region before the Nasca. Floodwater from monsoonal rains later scoured ...

Scientists believe that the majority of lines were made by the Nasca people, who flourished from around A.D. 1 to 700. Certain areas of the pampa look like a well-used chalk board, with lines ...

People at that time learned the roles of human sacrifice and livestock by looking at them while walking.” The giant “line” types include the famed Nazca hummingbird geoglyphs. They are ...