The Nazca people of Peru - famous for their huge line drawings on a desert plateau that are fully visible only from the air - set the stage for their collapse around the year 500 by deforesting the ...

Over 100 new geoglyphs depicting fish, snakes and humanoids, among other things, have been identified near Nazca, Peru—thanks, at least in part, to artificial intelligence. Researchers at Yamagata ...

Satellite observations may have unraveled a mystery surrounding a series of unique and ancient structures in southern Peru. The desert area of Nazca is most famous for giant representations of humans, ...

A 175 sq miles large area in the Nazca desert, 250 miles south of Lima between the towns of Palpa and Nazca, is one of the most famous and archaeologically significant sites in Peru - Unesco world ...

An ancient South American civilisation which disappeared around 1,500 years ago helped to cause its own demise by damaging the fragile ecosystem that held it in place, a study has found.

The ancient Nazca Lines, an archaeologically sensitive and sacred site in Peru, was damaged when a truck driver ignored the warning signs and plowed his cargo truck into it, officials said. The ...

Archaeologists discovered 168 geoglyphs near the arid Nazca plain in Southern Peru. The new findings, which encompass images of humans, birds, snakes, cats, and killer whales, date between 100 BCE and ...

The Nazca Lines of Peru have yielded yet another mysterious animal figure, one very familiar to feline fans. Archaeologists from the Peruvian Ministry of Culture have discerned the faint outlines of a ...

This undated handout picture released by the Yamagata University Institute of Nasca shows one of 303 new geoglyphs discovered by scientists at Yamagata University in Japan, where a team of researchers ...

A Purdue University archaeologist discovered an intact ancient iron ore mine in South America that shows how civilizations before the Inca Empire were mining this valuable ore. "Archaeologists know ...

Archaeologists in Peru have just revealed a jaw-dropping discovery: hundreds of brand-new Nazca Lines hidden in the desert, completely overlooked until now. These giant geoglyphs — animals, humans, ...

Research into a Nazca ritual site in Peru has determined that a child sacrificed more than a thousand years ago as part of a religious ceremony had consumed the psychedelic drug mescaline prior to ...