Armed with satellites and drones, archaeologists discover new Nasca lines and dozens of other enigmatic geoglyphs carved into the earth.
Etched into the high desert of southern Peru more than a millennium ago, the enigmatic Nasca lines
continue to capture our imagination. More than a thousand of these
geoglyphs (literally, 'ground drawings') sprawl across the sandy soil of
Nasca province, the remains of little-understood ritual practices that may have been connected to life-giving rain.
Now, Peruvian archaeologists armed with drones have discovered more
than 50 new examples of these mysterious desert monuments in adjacent
Palpa province, traced onto the earth's surface in lines almost too fine
to see with the human eye. In addition, archaeologists surveyed locally
known geoglyphs with drones for the first time—mapping them in
never-before-seen detail.
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