The lines drawn in geometric patterns and distinct animal shapes across the Peruvian desert have inspired many theories over the years. Here's what we know—and what remains to be seen.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The lines and figures etched across Peru's Nazca Desert were never random marks in the dirt. People of the Nazca culture—and ...

"And near every settlement we find geoglyphs." The parched desert and hillsides made an inviting canvas: By simply removing a layer of dark stones cluttering the ground, exposing the lighter sand ...

On the arid coastal plain of southern Peru, hundreds of enormous lines and figures are etched into the ground, invisible as anything more than scratches to a person standing among them. Only from an ...

Peru’s government cut the protected zone around the Nazca Lines by 42 percent, exposing one of the most fragile archaeological sites on Earth to new development pressure at the same time that NASA ...