AI Research Uncovers 300 Ancient Etchings in Peru's Nazca Desert

This article shares how Japanese scientists have use artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover 303 newly found etchings in Peru’s Nazca desert.  This doubles the amount of known geoglyphs made some 2000 years ago by a pre-Inca civilization.

Best viewed from the air, the lines situated some 220 miles south of Lima are one of Peru’s top tourist attractions.  The first geoglyphs were discovered in 1927.  The paper said that it had taken nearly a century to discover 430 Nazca geoglyphs.  Using AI scientists found 303 more during only six months of field surveys.

Among the new figures were giant linear-type geoglyphs, mainly representing wild animals, but also smaller ones with motifs of abstract humanoids and domesticated camelids, a mammal from the camel family.

Scientists claim that the people that formed the Nazca civilization lived in the area of southwest Peru from 200 BC to 700 AD.