September
24
/ 2024
The astonishing Nazca Lines of Peru are one of the true wonders of the ancient world. The figures they form are still visible from the air despite the passage of approximately 2,000 years of time since their original creation.But it turns out there were many more of these figures spread out across the surface of the Nazca desert than had previously been believed. While it took nearly a century for observers to identify 430 of the larger figures, a new AI analytical program detected the faint outlines of hundreds more that human eyes had missed. The AI system was used to scrutinized imagery collected by drones that ranged far and wide across the entire Nazca desert region, where the glyph
