About 50 of the large-scale drawings are of human-like figures -- with one even resembling Homer Simpson. Yamagata University Scientists have discovered 168 new geoglyphs in the soil of Peru’s ...

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.

303 new geoglyphs are discovered in the soil of Peru's Nazca Desert READ MORE ... researchers have discovered another 303 drawings – and they're possibly the most bizarre yet.