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

From the seat of government in Cusco, the Inca managed a vast territory stretching over 770,000 square miles. Controlling ...

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 ...

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 ...

The information about Inca healers is not only prejudiced but also very incomplete. Since pre-Columbian South American civilizations did not have a writing system, there are only two main sources of ...

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The Incas, for example ... heated debate among scholars about whether the knots constituted a semasiographic writing system (symbolic and disconnected from speech, like music notes or numerals ...

The earliest known writing system, called cuneiform, was invented around 3100 B.C.E. in Mesopotamia. Before cuneiform, however, humans used a simpler writing system called proto-cuneiform that ...

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