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Within the room, cave explorers discovered bracelets sitting atop stalagmites and other artifacts from a lost civilization.

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Sam Kean is a writer based in Washington, D.C. He is the author of several books, including the forthcoming Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Recreating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, ...

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