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, ...

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 ...

Researchers have identified 303 previously uncharted geoglyphs made by the Nazca civilization in Peru with the help of machine learning, including figurative representations of humanoid figures ...

The mystery of why ancient South American peoples who created the mysterious Nazca Lines also collected human heads as trophies has long puzzled scholars who theorize the heads may have been used in ...

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 ...

Excerpt from the Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Sciences, Feb. 1914, v. 13.

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 ...

Hundreds of ancient drawings depicting decapitated human heads and domesticated llamas have been discovered in the Peruvian desert with the help of artificial intelligence. Archaeologists have ...