The ancient South American people who carved the enigmatic Nazca Lines across the Peruvian desert some 1,500 to 2,000 years ago, literally lost their heads over spreading their puzzling culture, ...

With the help of artificial intelligence, researchers have found hundreds of ancient artworks carved into the pebbled ground of Peru’s Nazca Desert. Featuring decapitated heads, llamas, orcas holding ...

When it was made: Between A.D. 350 and 500 Related: Monomachos Crown: The 1,000-year-old crown honoring 'the one who fights alone' found by a farmer in a field What it tells us about the past: The ...

A recent study using specimens from Chicago's Field Museum establishes that Nazca trophy heads came from people who lived in the same place and were part of the same culture as those who collected ...

The mysterious people who etched the strange network of 'Nazca Lines' across deserts in Peru hastened their own demise by clearing forests 1,500 years ago, according to British scientists. The Nazca ...

The Nazca lines are patterns etched in the broad alluvial plains of the Peruvian Coast by the Nazca people who inhabited this region between 200 and 700 AD. Some lines are kilometers long, others as ...

"A Falcon Hill Press publication in archaeology." "Reprint of vol. 13 (February 1914) of the Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Sciences which contained two articles : "The Nazca pottery of ...

There has been a great deal of debate in scientific circles over the reason why and when the Nazca lines were created. In some circles, it is believed the geoglyphs had something to do with water, and ...