Archaeologists use AI to discover 303 unknown geoglyphs near Nazca Lines
Archaeologists use AI to discover 303 unknown geoglyphs near Nazca Lines
www.theguardian.com Archaeologists use AI to discover 303 unknown geoglyphs near Nazca Lines
Newly discovered figures dating back to 200BCE nearly double the number of known geoglyphs at enigmatic site
The use of AI combined with low-flying drones revolutionised the speed and rate at which the geoglyphs were discovered, according to a research paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
The paper said while it “took nearly a century to discover a total of 430 figurative Nazca geoglyphs”, using an AI system covering the entire Nazca region it “took just six months to discover 303 new figurative geoglyphs”.
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