AI helps discover hundreds of unknown ancient symbols hidden in Peru’s Nazca Desert

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Archaeologists working in Peru, assisted by artificial intelligence, have discovered 303 previously unknown giant symbols carved into the Nazca Desert.

The carvings include birds, plants, spiders, humanoid figures with headdresses, decapitated heads and a killer whale wielding a knife.

Described in a study published Monday in the journal PNAS, the discovery nearly doubles the number of known Nazca geoglyphs, mysterious works of art formed in the ground by moving rocks or gravel that are some 2,000 years old. The researchers' ...