Between the towns of Nazca and Palpa in Peru, a stretch of ground spanning 50 miles (80km) is covered in more than 700 enormous drawings. Now a new drawing, officially named a geoglyph ...

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This story appears in the March 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. From the air, the lines etched in the floor of the desert were hard to see, like drawings left in the sun too long.

The Nazca lines are a collection of geoglyphs. They are located south of Peru's capital Lima on the coastal plain. They were created by the Nazca and Palpa cultures between 500BC and 600AD.

The geoglyph has been painstakingly cleaned and preserved by a team of archaeologists to make it more easily visible, the ministry said in a statement, adding that the discovery was “further ...