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 ...

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Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen Elizabeth I. By 1913 the empire had grown to rule over 400 ...

Ancient civilizations are often put on screen, but strangely there aren’t a lot of movies out there depicting the once-mighty Inca Empire. From animated movies to horror movies witnessing releases of ...

Two thousand years before the Inca empire rose to power in the Andes, a lesser-known society called the Chavín Phenomenon unified regions of modern-day Peru through shared art, architecture, and ...