Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed the Maharashtra Directorate of Archaeology and Museums to take necessary ...

A new discovery in western India has stunned archaeologists and hinted at the existence of a previously unknown ancient civilization. According to the BBC, a pair of explorers found thousands of rock ...

The geoglyphs’ defacement accelerated with the rise of infrastructure development for copper mining in the 1990s, when off-road racing also became popular in the region.

The biodiversity survey recorded 459 plant species, of which 105 are endemic to the Konkan region. The team recorded 31 species of reptiles, 13 species of amphibians, 169 species of birds, and 41 ...

Created up to 20,000 years ago, petroglyphs and geoglyphs were made by humans scraping one piece of rock against another. Which ones are closest to you?

But why temples of the Konkan region, we ask? “India is geographically and culturally diverse, and being a Maharashtra-based institution, Konkan seemed like the perfect place to start.

Some 303 previously uncharted geoglyphs made by the Nazca, a pre-Inca civilization in present-day Peru dating from 200 B.C. to 700 A.D., were identified with the help of machine learning.

Across India, a dedicated band of amateur archaeologists and explorers has unearthed stunning discoveries, driven solely by passion. A school teacher, a fisherman, an engineer, a journalist and even a ...

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The Nasca geoglyphs are drawings that can extend over several hundred meters. Most of them become obvious to the untrained eye from a distance such as from surrounding hills (Fig. 2) or through aerial ...

Pimentel believes this is the case with the geoglyphs at Alto Barranco, which are over a thousand years old and located south of Iquique in the Tarapacá Region, about 1,000 miles from Santiago, Chile.

A roughly 72-foot-long relief-type geoglyph in the Nazca region thought to depict a killer whale holding a knife. A study has identified hundreds of previously undocumented geoglyphs in the region.