Gouged into a barren stretch of pampa in southern Peru, the Nazca Lines are one of archaeology’s most perplexing mysteries. On the floor of the coastal desert, the shallow markings look like simple ...

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For decades, we believed the Nazca Lines told the full story. But new drone technology has revealed over 50 geoglyphs previously unseen — older, finer, and even more mysterious than those we thought ...

Less than a year after researchers from Yamagata University’s Nazca Institute and IBM began training an algorithm on aerial photographs, the Peruvian desert yielded 303 previously unknown geoglyphs.

The Culture Ministry of Peru has cut roughly half of the protected area surrounding the Nazca Lines, a move that archaeologists warn could subject the UNESCO World Heritage Site to exploitation from ...