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

Atahualpa was an Inca king who, after warring with his half-brother, Huáscar, for control of the empire, was captured at his palace in Cajamarca in modern-day Peru by Spanish commander Francisco ...

The World Monuments Fund (WMF) has announced the discovery of more than a hundred previously unknown archaeological ...

It’s been thought, based on descriptions by Spanish chroniclers, that very few people in the Inca empire knew how to make khipus. Only a few very high-ranking Inca bureaucrats supposedly knew ...

It’s been thought, based on descriptions by Spanish chroniclers, that very few people in the Inca empire knew how to make khipus. Only a few very high-ranking Inca bureaucrats supposedly knew how to ...

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

Chavín was a major center of ritual activity between 1200 B.C. and 400 B.C., before the birth of the Inca empire. The complex included stone structures built around open plazas. As people added ...