The Atacama Desert in Chile is a harsh environment ... Today we know them as geoglyphs, and while they’re found in various sites across the globe, Atacama is home to the largest discovered ...

(Credit: Atacama Foundation) Tire tracks driving over Alto Barranco geoglyphs. On the arid and seemingly sterile surface of the Atacama Desert lies an invaluable treasure of history and culture: ...

Comparisons of the geoglyphs and how they appeared before accumulated damage.Credit...Luis Pérez Reyes The Atacama Desert receives rain only a few times a year. The intense sun and harsh ...

W ithin the vast, sun-scorched sands of the Atacama Desert lie ancient geoglyphs—carvings etched into the hillsides more than 1,000 years ago by Indigenous groups in northern Chile. But now ...

The rugged terrain of Chile’s Atacama Desert is etched with giant images of llamas, cats, fish, birds, and humans. Together, the geoglyphs recall a time when the barren expanse of sand and rock ...

A series of ancient desert artworks up to 3,000 years old are being destroyed by off-road enthusiasts driving over them Preservationists trying to protect the geoglyphs of the Atacama Desert in ...

Off-roaders’ impact on Chilean geoglyphs in the Atacama Desert was recently reported on by The New York Times. The geoglyphs are huge, earthen artworks dug out of the desert as long as 3,000 ...

The geoglyphs in this 200 million-year-old desert ... their creations coming from previous successive cultures. The Atacama Desert in Chile is a wonder in itself. It is the only true desert ...

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IQUIQUE, Chile, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Over a thousand years ago, the hundreds of giant geoglyphs carved into the desert in northern Chile were a bustling scene. They marked sources of water in the ...

Lines from tire tracks can be seen running through historic geoglyphs in the Atacama Desert. Atacama Desert Foundation Within the vast, sun-scorched sands of the Atacama Desert lie ancient ...