This move comes after concerns that the reduction exposed the ancient site to the risks of informal mining operations.

Peru's government has abandoned a plan that reduced the size of a protected area around the country's ancient Nazca Lines, it ...

Peru’s decision to shrink its archeological park home to the famous Nazca Lines by around 42% — an area roughly the size of 1 ...

But now, the government of Peru has slashed the borders of the protected archaeological park that encompasses the Nazca Lines ...

Peru's government has reversed a decision that reduced the protected area of the Nazca Lines. Following criticism and ...

According to Peru's Culture Ministry, the decision was based on studies that more accurately identified areas of “real ...

An aerial view of a cat drawing etched on soil that is part of the geoglyphs known as the Nazca Lines in the desert of Nazca, ...

A decision of Peru's ministry of culture to reduce the size of the Nazca Lines reserve by more than 40 percent is prompting ...

Peru has acknowledged that miners operating in an area once protected around the famed Nazca Lines can now begin the process ...

"The main threats to the Nazca Lines are informal mining operations in the surroundings and even within the protected area," Pieter Van Dalen, head of Peru's archaeologists' association, told Reuters.

Supported by By Franz Lidz Gouged into a barren stretch of pampa in southern Peru, the Nazca Lines are one of archaeology’s most perplexing mysteries. On the floor of the coastal desert ...

NAZCA, Peru — High priests at an ancient religious compound in southern Peru may have designed the mysterious Nazca lines, a set of huge geometric patterns, animal figures and long lines etched ...