William Neuman reports on the importance of the new discovery for the New York Times: At the site called Incahuasi, about 100 miles south of Lima, excavators have found, for the first time, several ...

Two Harvard University researchers believe they have uncovered the meaning of a group of Incan khipus, cryptic assemblages of string and knots that were used by the South American civilization for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long before Spanish colonization, the indigenous people of Peru kept track of important dates and numbers, and perhaps even ...

A new study challenges widespread notions about khipus, intricate cord and knot information-recording systems, based on Spanish colonial-era sources. Reading time 2 minutes The Inca were a ...

SAN ANDRéS DE TUPICOCHA starts every year by swearing in new leaders, like many small towns in Peru. Instead of giving the office-holders a sash or medal it gives them a quipu, a coloured skein of ...