Press conference held in Peru on September 24!

October 18, 2024

On September 24, 2024 (Tuesday) at 7:00 AM Japan time (September 23, 2024, Monday at 5:00 PM local time in Peru), a press conference was held at the Japan-Peru Cultural Center in Lima, Peru.

This conference was organized in conjunction with the publication of an academic paper detailing new discoveries about the Nazca geoglyphs, with Professor Sakai as the lead author, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), which was released globally at the same time. Approximately 15 local journalists attended the conference, and after the presentation, they posed questions to Professor Sakai and his colleagues.

The announcements are as follows.
For materials, please refer to this link (lSpanish materials).

Announcements:

AI-accelerated Nazca survey nearly doubles the number of known figurative geoglyphs and sheds light on their purpose.

Speakers:

Masato Sakai, Professor at Yamagata University (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences) and Vice Director of the Institute of Nasca
Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the Republic of Peru
Jorge Olano, Doctoral student at Paris 1 University

Additionally, on the same day at 10:00 AM, another press conference regarding this content was held in the first conference room on the third floor of the Yamagata University Main Building in Yamagata City, Japan. President Hidetoshi Tamate and Dean Takashi Morioka of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as the director of the Institute of Nasca, attended in person. Professor Masato Sakai, Vice Director of the Institute of Nasca, visiting Professor Akihisa Sakurai, and doctoral student Jorge Olano from Paris 1 University attended online.

For information about the press conference in Japan, please refer to this link.