Locals and tourists joyfully celebrated the second staging of <a href=" Raymi, the Festival of the Sun, held at the Main Square —the former Hawkaypata— of the Imperial City as part of Cusco Day ...

Andean people of the past looked at these strings as a record of the climate, and they studied them to understand patterns.

The Inca Empire managed vast territories without a written alphabet, relying instead on a mysterious system of knotted ...

Andean people of the past looked at these strings as a record of the climate, and they studied them to understand patterns.

Finally, how did the Inca Empire write things down, and who did the writing? ... to have continued a form of the khipu tradition after the Spanish conquest to this day.

China’s Tianwen-2 mission to curious asteroid Kamo‘oalewa is underway. Also, how to read newsprint from 1.3km, and new climate insights from the mysterious Inca Khipu records.

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

Inka khipu with human hair was carbon dated to the Inca Empire, around 1480AD. Isotopic sampling of the human hair on the Inca khipu shows that the diet of the person who made the khipu was that ...

Researchers studying an ancient form of writing used by the Incas in pre-Columbian South America have unraveled new clues to a longstanding mystery.. The research, undertaken by Professor Sabine ...

The Atlantic has a fascinating deep dive into khipus — long cords that the Inca tied knots into to preserve information. Few know how to read the knots, which are hundreds of years old and fragile.