"AI was able to process in months what would have taken us decades with traditional methods," stated Sakai, after the algorithm detected patterns later confirmed in the Peruvian desert.

Over the past century, the ancient artworks inscribed on the ground in a desert in Nazca, Peru, have fascinated archaeologists. Many of them can only be seen from far away, such as from atop a ...

Japanese scientists have used artificial intelligence to uncover 303 new etchings in Peru's Nazca desert -- doubling the amount of known geoglyphs made some 2,000 years ago by a pre-Inca civilization.

Gouged into a barren stretch of pampa in southern Peru, the Nazca Lines are one of archaeology’s most perplexing mysteries. On the floor of the coastal desert, the shallow markings look like simple ...

NAZCA, Peru -- Standing inside the maze of mysterious lines and figures that put this arid region on the tourist map, state archaeologist Alberto Urbano surveys a football field-sized spread of ...

The Nazca Lines were made around two millennia ago. Diego Delso via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Some 2,000 years ago, Peru’s ancient Nazca people created hundreds of monumental artworks in ...

With drones and A.I., researchers managed to double the number of mysterious geoglyphs in a matter of months. Some 303 previously uncharted geoglyphs made by the Nazca, a pre-Inca civilization in ...