Found: Giant Drawings of Warriors, Etched On Peru’s Desert Hillsides
They were discovered with drones.
by Cara Giaimo April 06, 2018
A few months ago, a team of archaeologists sent a fleet of drones flying over the Peruvian desert. They were looking for something new, but familiar: signs of looting around protected heritage sites. Instead, they found something old and strange: giant images, sketched into the sand by ancient civilizations.
As Michael Greshko reports at National Geographic, the team discovered “more than 50 new examples†of geoglyph art in the region’s Palpa province. Some of them are so-called “Nazca lines,†drawn by the Nazca culture “which held sway in the area from 200 to 700 A.D.,†writes Greshko. “However, archaeologists suspect that the earlier Paracas and Topará cultures carved many of the newfound images between 500 B.C. and 200 A.D.†(You can see images of the new lines over at Nat Geo.)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-nazca-lines-peru
