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Peru allows miners to seek permits in area removed from Nazca Lines protection • June 3, 2025, 6:40 PM ET (AP)
Peru reduces Nazca Lines park by 42%, raising concerns over environmental and heritage risks • June 2, 2025, 5:14 PM ET (AP)

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Gutzon Borglum. Presidents. Sculpture. National park. George Washington. Thomas Jefferson. Theodore Roosevelt. Abraham Lincoln. Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota.
National Parks and Landmarks Quiz
Nazca Lines showing hands, one of the geoglyphs on the Pampa Colorado, northwest of the city of Nazca, Peru. (Nasca Lines)
Is There a Whale in a Peruvian Desert?
The caves of Qumran on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, in the West Bank. The site of the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were first discovered in 1947.
More Archaeological Discoveries Quiz
Temple ruins of columns and statures at Karnak, Egypt (Egyptian architecture; Egyptian archaelogy; Egyptian history)
History Buff Quiz