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

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

Researchers studying an ancient form of string-writing used in pre-Columbian South America have unraveled new clues to a ...

Located roughly 300 miles north of Lima in Río Abiseo National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Gran Pajatén complex ...

Explore the ancient Manteno civilization of coastal Ecuador, discovered by historian Jacinto Jijon Y Caamano. Learn about ...

The Atlantic has a fascinating deep dive into khipus — long cords that the Inca tied knots into to preserve information. Few ...

The world's gay community and the ancient South American Inca people have a common source of pride - the rainbow flag. The flags are virtually identical - the Inca one has an additional blue stripe - ...

The beginning of the Inca empire dates to about 1200 A.D., to a ... And it shows that the ancient road builders’ knowledge of water was highly sophisticated. “They saw the power of water ...

The Andean Civilization was a complex society that ... However, the Spanish invasion in 1500 caused the end of the Inca. Ancient China emerged around 2000 BC, occupying the Yangtze and Yellow ...

THIS IS CUSCO, PERU, THE CAPITAL OF THE INCAN EMPIRE. IT’S ALIVE AND IT’S UP THERE AT 11,000FT. THE ELEVATION IS MORE THAN TWICE AS HIGH AS DENVER. BUT EXPERIENCING PERU’S ANCIENT HISTORY UP ...

"Thanks to such imaginative cultural relics that I have never seen before, I finally understand the similarities between the ancient Chinese Shu and Inca civilizations," a local reporter told the ...