Discover the mysterious Nazca Lines in this virtual tour through the southern Peruvian desert. Fly over famous geoglyphs like ...

From a low ridge, the landscape looks plain enough – just ocher earth and scattered stones. Yet from the air, pale etchings known as Nazca geoglyphs spread out across thirty-one miles of desert like ...

Atlas’ fate in the Greek myth of Perseus is outlined in one of the largest geoglyphs anywhere. The sources of ancient Greek civilization emerge at new geographical coordinates, revealing Arcadian ...

Atlas’ fate in the Greek myth of Perseus is outlined in one of the largest geoglyphs anywhere. The sources of ancient Greek civilization emerge at new geographical coordinates, revealing Arcadian ...

One of the largest geoglyphs in Maharashtra is in Ratnagiri. It depicts an elephant, with more than 70 other animal figures (sharks, sting rays, tigers, birds) carved within. (Image courtesy ...

Some 400 km south of Lima, Peru, on the barren Nazca Pampa, lie hundreds (maybe thousands) of ancient geoglyphs. Considered among archaeology’s greatest enigmas, the Nazca Lines were discovered by ...

Geoglyphs are a type of land art ... The Atacama Desert has the largest discovered geoglyph that resembles a human-like figure. The art depicts stick limbs and a crown-looking headpiece adorning ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile is a harsh environment. Yet, once upon a time, humans were traipsing across the landscape committing enormous drawings to the earth – drawings that would endure for ...

(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: ...

and passed by each of the largest line-type geoglyphs on the northern boundary of the Nazca Pampas, with their other ends terminating at Cahauchi Temple and the confluence of the Tierras Blancas ...

Typically, the largest creations are only fully viewable from above. The study reported that this recent research vastly improved accounts of relief-type figurative geoglyphs, revealing the ...