On a desert tableland roughly 400 kilometers from the Peruvian capital of Lima is the Nazca Pampa, home to ancient geoglyphs that survived for millennia before being rediscovered in the early 20th century.
Masato Sakai has been exploring this vast, arid landscape, which is 500 meters above sea level, for three decades in order to find and understand how and why these enigmatic designs, known as the Nazca Lines, came to be.
Now, cutting edge AI technology and good old-fashioned legwork is shedding light on one of the world’s greatest mysteries.
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