The Nazca lines are a group of geoglyphs in the Nazca Desert of southern Peru, made between about 500 BC and 500 AD. People made them by removing the top layer of reddish-brown pebbles to expose the yellow-grey soil underneath, leaving lines that are typically 10 to 15 centimetres deep. The combined length of the lines exceeds 1,300 kilometres, and they include hundreds of straight lines and geometric shapes as well as more than 70 animal and plant figures, such as a hummingbird, a monkey and a spider. Most of the figures are best seen from the air, and drones have revealed several hundred new ones in the 21st century. The lines have survived because the area is dry, windless and stable.

Israeli reports also say the cabinet directed the military to prepare for a possible new attack on Iran.

Angkor, near Siem Reap in northern Cambodia, was the capital of the Khmer Empire, which ruled much of mainland Southeast Asia between roughly the 9th and 15th centuries. At its height the city spread across about 3,000 square kilometres, making it the largest pre-industrial city on Earth by area. Its growth depended on water: huge reservoirs called barays, along with canals and embankments, stored monsoon rain and carried it to rice fields. That system let farmers harvest more than once a year and fed a very large population through the dry season. The temple complex of Angkor Wat, built in the early 12th century, is the best-known monument and still stands at the heart of the park.