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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 weapons and more, these so-called geoglyphs were likely created by the Nazca culture, a pre-Inca South American Indigenous group known for creating the famed Nazca Lines.
The Nazca Lines were first recorded by scientists in 1927. Over the next near-century, researchers attributed around 430 figurative geoglyphs to the Nazca people.
Now, a new A.I.-assisted survey published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Scienceshas found 303 additional geoglyphs in just six months. The drawings, made at least 2,000 years ago in an elevated desert in southern Peru, provide insights into the customs of the ancient Nazca civilization……
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...epict-llamas-human-sacrifices-more-180985133/
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 weapons and more, these so-called geoglyphs were likely created by the Nazca culture, a pre-Inca South American Indigenous group known for creating the famed Nazca Lines.
The Nazca Lines were first recorded by scientists in 1927. Over the next near-century, researchers attributed around 430 figurative geoglyphs to the Nazca people.
Now, a new A.I.-assisted survey published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Scienceshas found 303 additional geoglyphs in just six months. The drawings, made at least 2,000 years ago in an elevated desert in southern Peru, provide insights into the customs of the ancient Nazca civilization……
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...epict-llamas-human-sacrifices-more-180985133/