The authors propose that the explanation of what these decorations were for involves how locals traveled across the area.

Known as the Nazca Lines—named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1994—430 of these geoglyphs were already known. Spread over ...

The recent survey doubles the count of known geoglyphs, bringing the total count to over 700, while showcasing how AI can be ...

Ancient geoglyphs in Chile's Atacama Desert face threats from vehicles and mining, risking irreversible damage. Learn about the archaeological efforts to protect this historical site.

Aerial photography surveys, which began in the 1940s, previously identified 430 geoglyphs. But the Nazca Lines cover an area of roughly 450 square kilometers—too much land for any human being to ...

Archaeologists using artificial intelligence have discovered hundreds of geoglyphs depicting parrots, cats, monkeys and ...

Fig. 2: View from a hill onto a Nazca line at the UNESCO World Heritage Site in Peru, Andes mountain range in the background. The Nasca geoglyphs are drawings that can extend over several hundred ...

The Nazca Lines are a remarkable and mysterious collection of geoglyphs etched into the desert plains of southern Peru.

The Nazca civilization thrived on Peru's southern coast for 850 years, creating the mysterious Nazca lines that can still be seen today.

Relief-style geoglyphs depicted humanoid images of ceremonial acts, llamas, and human heads. They ... [+] also showed several orcas wielding weapons. A trained AI model scanned aerial photos of ...