This is the home of the Nazca Lines. Across 170 square miles of flat earth, the hard red soil is broken only by a series of strange furrows. They aren’t deep — usually breaking just six to ...

Some of the swirls and zigzags start to form more distinct shapes: a hummingbird, a spider, a monkey. These are the renowned Nasca lines—subject of mystery for over 80 years. How were they formed?

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 ...

Archaeologists in Nazca, Peru blame the government for not ... A Greenpeace stunt in December damaged the lines. Photo: Associated Press ...

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 cultural authorities surveyed some of the ancient Nazca Lines, searching for damage after recent rains. The Nazca Lines in southern Peru are pre-Columbian geoglyphs stretching across the ...