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?

By Paarth Mathur ✐ Peruvian Times Contributing Writer ☄ The linguistic landscape of Peru is a story of resilience. Since the ...

Ongoing research from the University of St Andrews has discovered that khipus, the mysterious string writing of the Incas, ...

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 ...

Much like the famous Inca walls found throughout Cusco ... Picture: AP Photo/Martin Mejia In an empire where political power and religion were closely intertwined, the ability to move unseen ...

📜 The Inca Empire: Andean Apocalypse - Disease--likely, smallpox or measles--had arrived in the Inca empire, and it was ruthless. Two of the (now dead) Emperor Huayna Capac's sons, Atahualpa ...

His ancestor, Mansio Serra de Leguizamón, was a conquistador and one of the first Europeans to set foot in the Inca empire, which once stretched from Colombia to Chile. Within a few years of the ...

Nearly 500 years after the collapse of the largest empire in the Americas, a single bridge remains from the Inca's extraordinary road system – and it's rewoven every year from grass. "I believe ...

In part 2 of this 4-part series, the Inca Empire was the largest in the world at its peak. Lasting just one century from the mid-15th century, it stretched across the South American continent from ...