#nazca desert

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shoutout to the >2,000 year-old 120ft-long Nazca Lines cat geoglyph

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Nazca Lines

Nazca lines - Wikipedia

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AI helps uncover hundreds of unknown ancient symbols hidden in Peru’s Nazca Desert | CNN

AI-assisted research nearly doubles the number of known Nazca geoglyphs, ancient symbols formed in the ground by moving stones or gravel tha

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Scientists Uncover Gorgeous 2,000-Year-Old Etching of a Giant Cat in Nazca Desert

This particular geoglyph of a cat has been dated to between 200-100 BCE, meaning it's part of the Late Paracas period.

A cat lies in the Sun in Peru, its ears up and alert, its belly exposed, and tail stretched out.

The cat is 37 metres (120 feet) long, and around 2,000 years old. It's a geoglyph recently discovered in the famous Nazca desert in Peru.

After authorities began improving access to a lookout point called the Mirador Natural, a research team noticed a barely visible cat on a hillside.

"It's quite striking that we're still finding new figures, but we also know that there are more to be found," Johnny Isla, Peru's chief archaeologist for the Nazca lines, told the Spanish news agency EFE.

The Nazca lines are huge drawings in the soil of the Nazca desert, mostly created by the Nazca culture between 500 BCE and 500 CE.

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Nazca Lines - Peru 

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The Nazca Lines (Nazca Desert, southern Peru).

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The Nazca Lines are a collection of over 700 ancient geoglyphs in the Nazca Desert of southern Peru, created by the Nazca culture between 500 BCE and 500 CE by scratching lines into the desert floor to expose lighter soil beneath.

These large designs, depicting animals, plants, and geometric shapes, are best seen from the air and are considered a UNESCO World Heritage Site, though their exact purpose remains a mystery, with theories ranging from religious significance to astronomical calendars.

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28 September 2025

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To Decipher Peru’s Nazca Lines, Think Like an Ornithologist

Researchers believe the giant birds are more exotic than they seem.