How AI Revolutionised the Search for Nazca Geoglyphs In recent years, researchers from Yamagata University in Japan, in collaboration with IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center, leveraged AI to ...

Some 303 previously uncharted geoglyphs made by the Nazca, a pre-Inca civilization in present-day Peru dating from 200 B.C. to 700 A.D., were identified with the help of machine learning.

Science Shorts AI Revealed a New Trove of Massive Ancient Symbols The 2,000-year-old geoglyphs offer clues to ancient Nazca people and their rituals ...

The AI system revealed the distribution of candidate geoglyphs from aerial photographs, drawing the archaeologists’ attention to areas where to take a closer look at the ground on site. With the 303 ...

But the Nazca Lines cover an area of roughly 450 square kilometers—too much land for any human being to thoroughly investigate. Some newly discovered geoglyphs. Photo: Sakai et al. / PNAS.

Using AI-supported screening, researchers were able to discover 303 previously unknown geoglyphs in the Nazca region. The scientists hope to find more.

The mysterious pre-Hispanic figures, known as geoglyphs, are motifs etched into the ground via the movement of stones or gravel. Such figures have been found across the Nazca desert region in ...

Hundreds of ancient geoglyphs have been discovered in Peru, in South America, with the help of AI. A team of archaeologists from a Japanese University worked together with scientists from IBM ...

AI-assisted research nearly doubles the number of known Nazca geoglyphs, ancient symbols formed in the ground by moving stones or gravel that date back 2,000 years.