But they are long. Paul Williams/FlickrThe Condor, one of the 70 plant and animal geoglyphs that make up Peru’s Nazca Lines.

YAMAGATA--Researchers here have discovered 168 more ancient geoglyphs, where lines drawn ... snakes and other animals were likely created around 100 B.C.–A.D. 300. The researchers, headed ...

The geoglyphs fall into two types ... Sakai said it is likely that they formerly served as ritual spaces in the shapes of animals. “At that time, there was no written language in society.

The geoglyphs appear to represent humans and animals. They were created by removing black stones from the earth's surface to expose a white sand surface beneath. Research has determined that there ...

A Japanese research team trained an AI to locate 303 new geoglyphs in Peru's Nazca Desert ... measure up to 1,200 feet and depict various animals, plants, and abstract figures.

The Nazca Lines are enormous geoglyphs located in the Peruvian desert ... Along with carvings that depict animals, some of the drawings also depict humanoid and hybrid figures and potential ...

The lines are known as geoglyphs – drawings on the ground made ... themes have also been found at other ancient Peruvian sites. Animal symbolism is common throughout the Andes and are found ...

The geoglyphs - also known as the Nasca Lines - are mysterious artworks carved into the ground around 2,000 years ago by the ancient Nazca people. The carvings are of plants and animals like ...

2011 35COM 7B.131 - Lines and Geoglyphs of Nasca and Pampas de Jumana (Peru) (C 700) 2009 33COM 7B.144 - Lines and Geoglyphs of Nasca and Pampas de Jumana (Peru) (C 700) 2007 31COM 7B.130 - Lines and ...

Located in the arid Peruvian coastal plain, some 400 km south of Lima, the geoglyphs of Nasca and the pampas of Jumana cover about 450 km2. These lines, which were scratched on the surface of the ...