Who Carved These Mysterious Lines in the Desert?
Clip: Season 49 Episode 17 | 6m 57sVideo has Closed Captions
Learn more about the ancient Nazca people and their ancestors, the Paracas.
The Nazca were an ancient group of farmers and fishermen that used desert plateaus as a canvas for giant geoglyphs. But some of these drawings pre-date the Nazca. Who created them and why?
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Who Carved These Mysterious Lines in the Desert?
Clip: Season 49 Episode 17 | 6m 57sVideo has Closed Captions
The Nazca were an ancient group of farmers and fishermen that used desert plateaus as a canvas for giant geoglyphs. But some of these drawings pre-date the Nazca. Who created them and why?
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Artificial Intelligence Reveals Ancient Desert Drawings
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Can AI help archaeologists uncover more Nazca geoglyphs? (4m 25s)
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Who created the Nazca lines and why? New clues to one of the greatest ancient enigmas. (27s)
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Additional funding is provided by the NOVA Science Trust with support from Roger Sant. National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Brilliant.org. Major funding for NOVA is provided by...