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

Researchers studying an ancient form of string-writing used in pre-Columbian South America have unraveled new clues to a ...

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

Located roughly 300 miles north of Lima in Río Abiseo National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Gran Pajatén complex ...

The world's gay community and the ancient South American Inca people have a common source of pride - the rainbow flag. The flags are virtually identical - the Inca one has an additional blue stripe - ...

The beginning of the Inca empire dates to about 1200 A.D., to a ... And it shows that the ancient road builders’ knowledge of water was highly sophisticated. “They saw the power of water ...

The Inca did everything every great ancient civilization accomplished all while lacking literal horsepower and the ability to cross to one side of the empire without having to embark on a trek that ...

WASHINGTON-Quinoa, the sacred "mother grain" of the ancient Inca civilization suppressed by Spanish conquistadors, could become an increasingly important food source in the future thanks to ...