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The world's largest geoglyph stretching across a 200 million year old desert
The Atacama Desert has the largest discovered geoglyph that resembles a human-like figure. The art depicts stick limbs and a crown-looking headpiece adorning its head. Known as the Atacama Giant ...
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1,000-year-old geoglyphs in Atacama Desert destroyed by off-road racers: Report
People say that the Atacama desert is the driest nonpolar desert in the world. The desert is also famous for geoglyphs, which ...
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Who will save South America’s vast, ancient earthworks from destruction?
Meanwhile, off-road racers in Chile have made cuts across the geoglyphs in the Atacama Desert near the city of Iquique. A push for Unesco protection could assuage some of the damage in Brazil ...