{"id":213853,"date":"2026-05-14T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/after-decades-of-failed-research-artificial-intelligence-just-discovered-303-hidden-geoglyphs-in-peru-in-just-six-months\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T11:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:10:13","slug":"after-decades-of-failed-research-artificial-intelligence-just-discovered-303-hidden-geoglyphs-in-peru-in-just-six-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/after-decades-of-failed-research-artificial-intelligence-just-discovered-303-hidden-geoglyphs-in-peru-in-just-six-months\/","title":{"rendered":"After Decades of Failed Research, Artificial Intelligence Just Discovered 303 Hidden Geoglyphs in Peru in Just Six Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailygalaxy.com\/2026\/05\/ai-discovered-303-hidden-geoglyphs-in-peru\/\">After Decades of Failed Research, Artificial Intelligence Just Discovered 303 Hidden Geoglyphs in Peru in Just Six Months<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailygalaxy.com\/2026\/05\/ai-discovered-303-hidden-geoglyphs-in-peru\/\">https:\/\/dailygalaxy.com\/2026\/05\/ai-discovered-303-hidden-geoglyphs-in-peru\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-14 09:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"dailygalaxy.com\">dailygalaxy.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Artificial intelligence (AI) has helped uncover 303 previously unknown Nazca geoglyphs in southern Peru, nearly doubling the number of existing known figures.<\/li>\n<li>The discovery was part of a project between Yamagata University and IBM Research, which used high-resolution aerial images to detect the new geoglyphs.<\/li>\n<li>Researchers split the landscape into small image tiles to ensure no possible geoglyph was missed, enhancing the AI&#8217;s ability to detect faint or incomplete shapes.<\/li>\n<li>The new figures are mostly small, some depicting human heads with exaggerated features or animals like camelids and felines.<\/li>\n<li>Many of the newly discovered geoglyphs are located close to ancient walking paths, suggesting possible use in rituals or reminders related to beliefs and social roles in antiquity.<\/li>\n<li>The application of AI is expected to revolutionize archaeology beyond Peru by dramatically reducing the time needed for fieldwork and aiding in preserving vulnerable sites.<\/li>\n<li>Digital mapping during the project offers a fresh perspective into the Nazca people\u2019s uses and understanding of their landscape.<\/li>\n<li>The use of AI in this process establishes a new research paradigm, promising more efficient archaeological investigations in the future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Decades of Failed Research, Artificial Intelligence Just Discovered 303 Hidden Geoglyphs in Peru in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dailygalaxy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/After-Decades-of-Failed-Research-Artificial-Intelligence-Just-Discovered-303-Hidden-Geoglyphs-in-Peru-in-Just-Six-Months-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-213853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213855,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213853\/revisions\/213855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}