#nazca lines

和自流し：ナスカ

Close your eyes and picture a sampler. We bet you are picturing a cross-stitched design with an alphabet on it. This type of sampler is quite common in England and North America, but there are many other types of samplers. In fact, samplers have been made in almost every culture around the world for several thousand years.

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Listen in to learn about:

The oldest preserved sampler, from the same Peruvian culture that created the mysterious Nazca lines.

The oldest synthetic dye, Egyptian Blue, plus how to make it yourself (with a thousand-degree kiln)

The oldest British sampler, which is also the oldest signed sampler, the Jane Bostocke sampler

3-D globe samplers (!!!)

And so much more!

Grab your favorite handcraft and listen in for fun facts to text to your crafting bestie!

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This AI model focuses on relief-type geoglyphs that are small and difficult to identify since the distribution of the large line-type figurative geoglyphs is known from previous (manual) aerial studies that do not necessarily require inspection of high-resolution images. The AI-assisted method is much more scalable, as evidenced by the number of new geoglyphs it has identified: It has assisted in detecting 303 new figurative relief-type geoglyphs, almost doubling the amount of known relief-type geoglyphs (Fig. 2 and SI Appendix, Fig. S1). [PNAS]

The Marree Man, a mysterious geoglyph, discovered in the Australian outback in 1998.

Archaeologists discovered 168 geoglyphs near the arid Nazca plain in Southern Peru. The new findings, which encompass images of humans, birds, snakes, cats, and killer whales, date between 100 BCE and 300 CE, when the pre-Incan Nazca civilization lived in the region. The discovery adds to nearly 1,000 straight lines and hundreds of figurative drawings that have so far been identified as part of the vast Nazca lines.

Professor Masato Sakai of Yamagata University in Japan and Peruvian archaeologist Jorge Olano led the recent survey. The team used aerial photographs, some captured by drones, to decipher the figures. Most of the newly discovered figures are relatively small — less than 32 feet wide — and many were drawn on hillsides.