They were carved out of the sand on a Peruvian coastal plain and resemble living things and other objects. The new geoglyphs join an existing collection of mysterious drawings in Peru known as the ...

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.

If you walk across the Nazca desert of southern Peru, there’s not much to see ... In 1982, a small team was able to reproduce one of the larger drawings, the condor, using wood and ropes to mark off ...

LIMA, Peru — In Huanchaco ... and the Nasca (100 BC to AD 500), whose enigmatic “Nasca lines”--large sand drawings etched into the ground--were brought to light by German scientist and ...

as pilots flying over Peru brought the Nazca lines to the world’s attention. How were these drawings made if they couldn’t even be perceived without an aerial view? The first published mention ...

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 ...

Over 300 mysterious Nazca glyph patterns have been discovered in Peru, including cats ... social media rugby trend The impressive drawings are thought to have been made by the removal of rocky ...

Beneath a sand dune near Zaña, Peru, archaeologists have unearthed the ruins of a stunning ancient temple — and it could be 5,000 years old. The mud structure contains impressive friezes and ...

Experts with Peru's prosecutor's office analyzed the seized dolls, and forensic archaeologist Flavio Estrada presented the results of their findings at a press conference for the Peruvian Ministry ...

Archaeologists recently found the lost ruins of a ceremonial temple—covered in sand and 4,000 to 5,000 years old—in northwestern Peru. The excavation team first discovered the walls ...

If you walk across the Nazca desert of southern Peru, there’s not much to see ... In 1982, a small team was able to reproduce one of the larger drawings, the condor, using wood and ropes to mark off ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the ruins of a 5,000-year-old ceremonial temple and human skeletal remains beneath a sand dune in Peru. The temple site, which is located in the Zaña (also spelled ...