Deforestation of the Amazon is uncovering Geoglyphs

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Deforestation of the Amazon is uncovering Geoglyphs
January 4, 2010
Google Earth Blog

700 years ago, for reasons that are still unknown, ancient people sculpted hundreds of geoglyphs in the Amazon. One of the most famous geoglyphs is the Nazca Lines in Peru. Recently, a combination of deforestation and high-resolution satellite imagery is beginning to expose many more of them.

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