Two large, engraved stones found in the Middle East display the oldest known building plans drawn to scale, researchers say. One carved depiction covers part of a rectangular stone found at a ...

Archaeologists gain insight into ancient desert drawings – by walking them. Archaeologists have completed highly detailed research into the Nazca Lines – enigmatic drawings created between 2,100 and 1 ...

A Greenpeace stunt turned the international spotlight on Peru's 1,500-year-old Nazca Lines this month, but they're not the only enigmatic (and endangered) ancient drawings in South America. Chile's ...

In this vast plain of the Al Harrah desert, stretching from Syria across north-eastern Jordan and into Saudi Arabia, ancient drawings are carved into volcanic basalt rock.

New insights into Peru’s mysterious Nazca geoglyphs suggest that the lines may have once been a labyrinth with a spiritual purpose. Two scientists have decided to use a low-tech method for exploring ...

A huge spiral carved into the ground in India covers almost 100,000 square metres, dwarfing other individual geoglyphs like those in the Nazca desert in Peru. The spiral is in a small cluster of ...

In this vast plain of the Al Harrah desert, stretching from Syria across north-eastern Jordan and into Saudi Arabia, ancient drawings are carved into volcanic basalt rock. In this vast plain of the Al ...