Lost Orca Geoglyphs Rediscovered in Peru

Lost Orca Geoglyphs Rediscovered in Peru
Aerial view of the Hummingbird, one of the most well-preserved figures (300 feet long) at Nazca Lines, some 435 km south of Lima, Peru on Dec. 11, 2014. Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images
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Archeologists who based their search on a 50-year-old photo rediscovered a more than 2,000-year-old geoglyph of a killer whale in a remote region of Peru.

Johny Isla, the head of Peru’s Ministry of Culture in Ica province, was searching old records of geoglyph expeditions in the German Archaeological Institute in Bonn sometime around 2013. He saw a single photo of an orca geoglyph taken by a German expedition in the 1960’s.