Between the towns of Nazca and Palpa in Peru, a stretch ... of the region. Other drawings represent flowers, plants, and trees. In the same desert, a mysterious line of shallow holes called ...

YAMAGATA--Researchers here have discovered 168 more ancient geoglyphs, where lines drawn across stretches of earth form images that can be seen from overhead, in Nazca, Peru. The team from ...

As a plane soars over the high desert of southern Peru, the dull ... personally protect the lines from reckless visitors. The lines are known as geoglyphs – drawings on the ground made by ...

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.

Japanese researchers from Yamagata University have announced the discovery of some 168 new geoglyphs in Peru's Nazca Lines. The team led by Professor Sakai Masato in collaboration with Peruvian ...

Peru's Nazca Lines, the mysterious geoglyphs etched into the desert centuries ago by indigenous groups, are world famous - and now thousands of similar patterns have been found in the Middle East.

The figure of a relaxing cat has been discovered in the Nazca desert in Peru. The Nazca lines, a Unesco World Heritage site, is home to designs on the ground - known as geoglyphs - created some ...

After two years of scanning Peru's southern Pacific coast with drones ... discovered 168 additional geoglyphs in the mysterious Nazca lines. The massive, carved trenches — attributed by some ...

In recent times Peru has become accustomed to impeachment attempts, threats to dissolve Congress and accusations of coup-mongering in relentless battles between the president and the legislature.

The Nazca Lines, a group of hundreds of mysterious geoglyphs etched into the desert in Peru, have mystified scientists for nearly a century. People from ancient civilizations made the drawings ...