By Futura Team
Publication Date: 2026-01-23 02:00:00
Artificial intelligence has uncovered hundreds of giant ancient designs hidden for centuries beneath the desert sands of Peru, revealing patterns and purposes that had long been overlooked.
In just six months, a joint team from Yamagata University’s Nazca Institute and IBM doubled the known number of Nazca lines and identified 303 new ones Geoglyphs scattered across the coastal desert of Peru. Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) This discovery was confirmed by lead archaeologist Professor Masato Sakai and represents one of the fastest advances in archaeological knowledge ever achieved at this UNESCO World Heritage Site.
These huge patterns, made between 200 B.C. Etched into the desert floor between 2000 BC and 650 AD, they depict stylized animals, plants and geometric patterns, some spanning hundreds of meters. Many of these intricate shapes have previously gone unnoticed due to the sheer scale of the desert and the limitations of traditional surveys…
