Sunday, December 25, 2022

Japanese Archaeologists discover more than 168 new Nazca lines in Peru bringing the total to 358

Good news! It appears, a scientific study on these new findings has not yet been published. 

It surprises me that archaeologists from a Japanese university were involved here.  However, there was the Peruvian President Fujimoro and "Japanese Peruvians ... are Peruvian citizens of Japanese origin or ancestry. Peru has the second largest ethnic Japanese population in South America after Brazil."

I remember well that in the 1970s speculators on extraterrestrial visitors claimed the Nazca lines were airfield markers for spaceships! At least these speculators made us more aware of this archaeological wonder!😊 Perhaps, Japanese explorers left these glyphs behind (just speculating) 😊

"... The glyphs date back to between 100 B.C. and A.D. 300 and were discovered during field surveys conducted between 2019 and 2020 by a team from Yamagata University in Japan working with local archaeologists from Peru. ..."

"Highlights
Archaeologists ... discovered 168 new geoglyphs on the Nasca Pampa and the surrounding area.
Geoglyphs of humans, camelids, birds, killer whales, felines, snakes, etc.
Research results of field surveys utilizing aerial photo and drones.
77 geoglyphs were concentrated in an archaeological park established in 2017 near the downtown area of the city of Nasca."

"[Researchers are] conducting an AI-based study of the distribution of Nasca geoglyphs. By using the newly discovered geoglyphs for AI analysis, Yamagata University aims to clarify the distribution patterns of the geoglyphs. The results of this research will also be used for geoglyph conservation activities."

Archaeologists discover more than 150 new Nazca lines in Peru The ancient artworks have puzzled scientists for decades -- and there's way more of them than we thought.




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