There are just four villages in the Peruvian Andes where khipus are kept, though the knowledge of how to read them was lost ...

Even long before the days of the world's oldest civilizations, humans were creating settlements and even building impressive, ...

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

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

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

But the ancient Greeks certainly had numbers. In fact, they had what was in some ways a much more elegant system than the ...

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

Phoenician abjad. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / w1k0 CC BY 4.0 What about the ancient Phoenician script? While some scholars consider this an alphabet because it uses individual symbols for distinct ...

AN ANCIENT sword engraved with swastikas and forged long before Jesus walked the Earth has been discovered in a Celtic Iron Age necropolis. Uncovered intact in France after 2,300 years, the sword ...