Scratched on the ground, the Nazca Lines number in the thousands and depict creatures from both the natural world and the human imagination. They include animals such as the spider, hummingbird ...

The Nazca (Nasca) were fishermen and farmers who lived in oases along the arid southern coast of Peru between 100 BCE and 800 CE. The images and lines they carved into their desert home, like this ...

Diego Delso/Wikimedia Commons Peru’s Nazca Lines don’t only depict animals — this glyph is a stylized tree. As for the ...

The Nazca Lines were first recorded in 1927. ... Figures that depict wild plants and animals reach about 1,200 feet long. The new group of geoglyphs was smaller, older, ...

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 ...

In 2014, Greenpeace environmental activists entered the highly restricted area and placed giant, yellow letters that read, "Time for change! The future is renewable. Greenpeace," near the Nazca Lines.

They've been around for thousands of years, but little is definitively known about Peru's mysterious Nazca Lines, in which scientists recently discovered more than 100 new designs. Here's what ...

The new carvings found at Nazca, in southern Peru, could date back over 2,000 years and depict humans and animals, including birds and snakes.

The Nazca Lines were made around two millennia ago. Diego Delso via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0. Some 2,000 ... Their subjects are mostly plants and animals—a hummingbird, ...

Peru's government has abandoned a plan that reduced the size of a protected area around the country's ancient Nazca Lines, it ...

The Nazca Lines, located about 400 km (250 miles) south of Lima, are over 800 giant desert etchings of animals, plants and geometric figures created more than 1,500 years ago.