Discover the mysterious Nazca Lines in this virtual tour through the southern Peruvian desert. Fly over famous geoglyphs like the Hummingbird, the Spider, the Monkey, and the Astronaut. Learn about ...

In a land where rain rarely falls and the desert stretches to the sea, a penguin once waddled into the imagination of an ...

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 ...

The Nazca Lines are made up of more than 800 straight lines, 300 geometric figures, and 70 animal and plant designs were made by peoples of the Nazca culture between 200 B.C.E and 500 C.E.

The area in question forms part of a UNESCO-recognized World Heritage Site, home to the Nazca Lines — massive geoglyphs etched into the desert over 1,500 years ago — and one of Peru’s most ...

Lady of the Lines: How Maria Reiche Saved the Nazca Lines by Sweeping the Desert Michaela Maccoll, illus. by Elisa Chavarri. Astra, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-66262-009-6 ...

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 ...

Peru’s decision to shrink its archeological park home to the famous Nazca Lines by around 42% — an area roughly the size of 1,400 soccer fields — has sparked alarm among conservationists ...

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. UNESCO declared them ...

Peru has acknowledged that miners operating in an area once protected around the famed Nazca Lines can now begin the process of legalizing their activities after the government reduced the buffer ...

Peru’s culture ministry has reversed a decision to shrink the protected area around the Nazca Lines after national and international backlash. The move would have reduced the zone by 42%, ...