After you read this article you might also like to check out an original article from our archives: How Were the Mysterious Ancient Nazca Lines Created? via iflscience: The Peruvian culture ministry has announced the discovery of more than 25 pre-Columbian geoglyphs carved into the rocky coastal desert hills of the Palpa Valley. According to Reuters, the enigmatic ancient designs are believed to have been created by the Paracas culture approximately 2,000 years ago, meaning they had already been imprinted into the landscape for several hundred years by the time that the succeeding culture, the Nazca, created their eponymous lines nearby. Due to the staggering vastness of the high-elevation, barren Sechura Desert that Palpa and Nazca fall within, these immense geoglyphs (some are 70 meters/230 feet long) had remained unknown until ministry teams began deploying aerial drone surveys late last year. One stunning example appears to depict a woman dancing with a killer whale – an animal