Lake Titicaca was a sacred space to the ancient Andean empire of ... “The Inca believed in religious traditions that were never separate from political and economic ones,” said Reinhard ...

By Federico Piana The Peruvian city of Cuzco sits perched high in the Andes Mountains, where the climate is dry and mild and ...

To understand everything that happens in Latin America in relation to the United States is to brush aside inconvenient ...

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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?

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a ...

Khipus are knotted-string devices that were used in the Inca Empire for communication and for recording information. Khipus are little understood, in part because most khipus are in museum ...

It remained at the nexus of the Chachapoya world for roughly two centuries, until the Inca Empire expanded into the mountainous region now known as San Martín. Researchers work to conserve a buil ...

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 ...