As a plane soars over the high desert of southern Peru, the dull pale sameness of the rocks and sand organize and change form. Distinct white lines gradually evolve from tan and rust-red.

National Geographic’s Johan Reinhard thinks it’s more likely the Nazca Lines were markers of the sites of religious rituals, ...

The Nazca Lines are enormous geoglyphs located in ... by the Nazca people who lived between 1 and 700 A.D., per National Geographic. Along with carvings that depict animals, some of the drawings ...

This story appears in the March 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. From the air, the lines etched in the floor of the desert were hard to see, like drawings left in the sun too long.

The Nazca Lines were first recorded by scientists in ... Now, a new A.I.-assisted survey published in the Proceedings of the ...

Scientists have discovered more than 300 never-before-seen Nazca Lines in Peru — including alien-looking humanoid figures, ...

Also known as the Circum-Pacific Belt, the Ring of Fire traces the meeting points of many tectonic plates, including the Eurasian, North American, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, Caribbean, Nazca ...

The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ... difference between the two major types of Nazca Lines. Relief-type images were closer to historical trails ...