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

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 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Known as the Nazca Lines—named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1994—430 of these geoglyphs were already known. Spread over 150 square miles, they depict everything from animals to plants and ...

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, ...