This week, scientists have proposed infecting another world with life to see what happens, we’re starting to understand the ...

Up until the time of the Spanish conquest in the 16th century, Inca communities in the Andean highlands used a peculiar form ...

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 ...

BLACKSBURG — Four years’ worth of research on the ancient Inca Road of the ... rule that impoverished the people, the Inca empire was based on a system of reciprocity, Barreiro said.

Since 2011, the town and its surrounds have provided some of the richest finds in South American archaeology, a veritable Aladdin’s cave of ancient ... a system of relay runners, the Inca ...

As modern scholarship revisits these ancient practices ... pre-Columbian South American civilizations did not have a writing system, there are only two main sources of information for studying Inca ...

A team of archaeologists has discovered an ancient labyrinthine system of tunnels hidden beneath the Peruvian city of Cusco, a former Inca stronghold nestled in the Andes mountains. The tunnel ...

The absence of modern-day calculators did not stop ancient cultures from performing ... whether the knots constituted a semasiographic writing system (symbolic and disconnected from speech ...

The expedition's efforts resulted in the discovery of an ancient Inca road that coincides with ... with the assistance of a news analysis system. Telephone: *2421 * Extension 4 Jerusalem Post ...

In the absence of a known system of writing in Peru’s ancient ... to compete with the glamour and grandeur of ancient Egypt. But the cloud-veiled Inca citadel of Machu Picchu exercises a macabre ...