Up until the time of the Spanish conquest in the 16th century, Inca communities in the Andean highlands used a peculiar form ...

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For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

undertaken by Professor Sabine Hyland at the University of St. Andrews, reveals that the enigmatic form of communication, known as quipu (also written as khipu), helped record observations of the ...

Khipus are knotted-string devices that were used in the Inca Empire for communication and ... Leonor de Jucul to study their collection of ancient khipus, which had never before been shown to ...

BLACKSBURG — Four years’ worth of research on the ancient Inca Road of the Andes ... The beginning of the Inca empire dates to about 1200 A.D., to a small agricultural society in and around ...

Machu Picchu, the historic sanctuary of the Inca Empire and the endpoint of the trail, is on UNESCO's World Heritage List. Still, for an 86-year-old to complete the Andean trail — which ranges ...

The legend begins in the 16th century, when the great Inca Empire in western South America ... he had uncovered Valverde's guide and a related map, made by a man named Atanasio Guzman.

A procession of gods marches across the wall of what may have been a royal mausoleum near Hattusa, capital of the lost Hittite Empire. The ancient city—in what is today central Türkiye—was ...

building self-centering structures fitted with fiber-optic sensors that copy the resilience and mechanism of ancient Inca buildings.