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Archaeology may be focused on illuminating the past, but it has long deployed cutting-edge technologies in its pursuits. Recent years have seen archaeologists use robots, LiDAR, drones, and 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 was a ...

Archaeologists found 168 more geoglyphs, dating back 2,000 years, in the desert near Nazca. Photos show the human and animal line drawings. Photo from Yamagata University A rabbit-looking creature ...

It took a century for researchers to discover 430 geoglyphs, some massive, spread across the ground in the Nazca region of Peru. Now, a team of scientists has nearly doubled the count of known ...

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STORY: Here on the dry, windswept plateau of southern Peru, researchers have discovered more than a hundred new shapes, carved into the earth more than 1000 years before Europeans colonists set foot ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. More than 3,000 years ago in what is now the lower Chao Valley in Peru, ancient people created ...

“Type A geoglyphs are generally distributed near the river valley, while Type B geoglyphs are distributed beside paths or on sloping inclines and are thought to have been used as wayposts when ...