New mapping and ground evidence points to the Nazca Lines as a ritual landscape—sacred paths, platforms, and trapezoids used for mass gatherings and offerings tied to water and fertility. Here’s how ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Peru’s government has reversed its controversial decision to shrink the protected area surrounding the Nazca Lines, which had faced criticism for opening the area to informal miners ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Peru’s government has reversed its controversial decision to shrink the protected area surrounding the Nazca Lines, which had faced criticism for opening the area to informal ...

FILE - A whale and a pair of hands drawings etched on soil, part of the geoglyphs known as the Nazca Lines, are visible in the desert of Nazca, Peru, June 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File) BOGOTA ...

LIMA, June 8 (Reuters) - Peru's government has abandoned a plan that reduced the size of a protected area around the country's ancient Nazca Lines, it said on Sunday, after criticism the change made ...

The Nazca Lines were made around two millennia ago. Diego Delso via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Some 2,000 years ago, Peru’s ancient Nazca people created hundreds of monumental artworks in ...

LIMA, June 4 (Reuters) - Peru's government has significantly reduced the protected area around its famed Nazca Lines, a move critics and archaeologists fear could leave the ancient geoglyphs ...

BOGOTA – Peru announced Tuesday that miners who had been operating illegally in a large protected archaeological reserve around the famous Nazca Lines will now be able to start the process of ...