About 50 of the large-scale drawings are of human-like figures -- with one even resembling Homer Simpson. Yamagata University Scientists have discovered 168 new geoglyphs in the soil of Peru’s ...

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.

They've been around for thousands of years, but little is definitively known about Peru's mysterious Nazca ... some of the drawings also depict humanoid and hybrid figures and potential scenes ...

303 new geoglyphs are discovered in the soil of Peru's Nazca Desert READ MORE ... researchers have discovered another 303 ...

Maintenance work on the Nazca Lines site in Peru just uncovered a never-before-seen geoglyph of a 121-foot-long cat. The ...

The Nazca (also spelled Nasca) Lines are geoglyphs located in an arid coastal area of Peru ... from the air; however, this is a myth. Research presented in 2007 that looked at 1,500 drawings ...