A few days ago archaeologists in Peru have discovered a giant cat geoglyph on a hillside. The discovery shows, once again, ...

A Nazca Line in the shape of a cat on a hillside in Peru. The lines of this cat have been refurbished, making them easier to see. (Image credit: Johny Isla/Ministerio de Cultura) ...

The Nazca lived between 100 B.C. and A.D. 800 in what scientists call a tropical desert. Yet just offshore, the sea teemed ...

The book catapulted Peru’s Nazca Lines to prominence among conspiracy theorists, and the discovery of Nazca bodies only fed the legend. The Nazca, who inhabited the arid valleys of the Rio ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Peru’s decision to shrink its archeological park home to the famous Nazca Lines by around 42% — an area roughly the size of 1,400 soccer fields — has sparked alarm ...

They've been around for thousands of years, but little is definitively known about Peru's mysterious Nazca Lines, in which scientists recently discovered more than 100 new designs. Here's what ...

Peru’s decision to shrink its archeological park home to the famous Nazca Lines by around 42% — an area roughly the size of 1,400 soccer fields — has sparked alarm among conservationists ...

Some 303 previously uncharted geoglyphs made by the Nazca, a pre-Inca civilization in present-day Peru dating from 200 B.C. to 700 A.D., ... Hundreds More Nazca Lines Emerge in Peru’s Desert.

Jorge Olano, head archaeologist for the Nazca Lines research program, said the new figures averaged between two and six meters (6.56 to 19.7 feet) in length.

The Nazca Lines, located about 400 km (250 miles) south of Lima, are over 800 giant desert etchings of animals, plants and geometric figures created more than 1,500 years ago. UNESCO declared them ...