Stretching across the coastal plains of southern Peru, the Nazca Lines have captivated and confounded the world for nearly a century. From the obsessive genius of Maria Reiche to alien conspiracies ...

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 over a ...

YAMAGATA—Yamagata University researchers announced on Sept. 24 that they have uncovered 303 new geoglyphs in the Nazca Lines, ...

NAZCA, Peru — You look at the massive collection of lengthy grooves and geoglyphs in the bone-dry desert of southern Peru, and you know immediately they are one of the great unsolved mysteries of this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here we see a Nazca line in gray of a bird, with its wings spread out wide. (The Yamagata University Institute of Nasca) ...

Scientists are shedding new light on the mysterious Nazca Lines etched in the desert of southern Peru, revealing what some of the drawings actually depict. A UNESCO World Heritage Site located about ...

For decades, the discussion about the Nazca Lines has started in the same place: from up above. Aerial shots, drone shots, the occasional breathless documentary on ancient aliens. It’s a striking ...

The Nazca Lines have puzzled the world since Peruvian archeologist Toribio Mejia Xesspe discovered them in the 1920s. Now they are back in the news after Greenpeace activists added a note to the ...

The Nazca lines are patterns etched in the broad alluvial plains of the Peruvian Coast by the Nazca people who inhabited this region between 200 and 700 AD. Some lines are kilometers long, others as ...