This painted penguin pot is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. It was made about 1,600 years ago and was ...

Scientists used AI to find 303 never-before-seen geoglyphs in Peru's Nazca Desert, including abstract humanoid figures, ...

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 ...

Peru's government has abandoned a plan that reduced the size of a protected area around the country's ancient Nazca Lines, it said on Sunday, after criticism the change made them vulnerable to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Item 1 of 7 A general view shows mapping of the Nazca lines images found in the Nazca as part of research led by Peruvian and Japanese researchers from Yamagata University who discovered 168 new ...

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 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, ...

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.