Owen Jarus is a regular contributor to Live Science who writes about archaeology and humans' past. He has also written for The Independent (UK), The Canadian Press (CP) and The Associated Press (AP), among others. Owen has a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Toronto and a journalism degree from Ryerson University.
Image 1 of 2Archaeologists have discovered 168 previously unknown geoglyphs — often called Nazca Lines — that Indigenous people created more than a millennia ago in the Aja area, near the city of Nazca, Peru.
The team has been searching for geoglyphs in this area for nearly a decade now. The newfound earthen artwork brings their discoveries to 358 geoglyphs in total, they said in the statement. The"excellent work of Masato Sakai, Jorge Olana and their team are providing a finer grain understanding of what happened in the region by using higher resolution imagery to discern the smaller and fainter [geoglyphs] that were previously unidentified," Jennings, who has conducted extensive archaeological research in Peru, told Live Science in an email.
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