The new Nazca lines

In the dry plains of southern Peru, the Nazca Lines stretch across open desert in long geometric shapes and giant figures.

For more than a century, archaeologists believed most of them had already been documented.

That changed in the last few years.

High-resolution drone surveys and AI-assisted mapping revealed more than one hundred previously unknown geoglyphs between 2020 and 2023.

Many of these figures sat only a short distance from the famous lines, yet they had gone unnoticed for centuries.