Case file · Sacred site

303 new Nazca geoglyphs found with AI

In September 2024 a Yamagata University team, using AI-assisted survey with IBM, announced 303 newly identified figurative geoglyphs at Nazca, nearly doubling the known total.

2024 CE · -14.70, -75.10 · status: official

The account

Most of the new figures are small relief glyphs beside footpaths, showing people and domestic animals, which the team read as communal and ritual viewing places.

Connections in the atlas

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Nazca Lines
Open it in the living atlas