The ancient Incas used quipus — knotted cords — to manage their vast empire. Even today, much of this mysterious writing system remains undecoded. Some South American communities are teaching ...

The stories and language of their ancestors have been lost to time. But their spirits remain. And the ruins remember. This is ...

Not only did the Incans genuinely use a knot language called khipu but you can even learn how to read some for yourself. At the height of the Incan empire during the 15th century, these woven ...

The knotted strings used by the ancient Inca may have conveyed accounting information and words, a new computer analysis suggests. The strings, called khipu, include knots in various colours and ...

Up until the time of the Spanish conquest in the 16th century, Inca communities in the Andean highlands used a peculiar form of writing to record key events and keep track of their economic ...

American and British explorers said on Thursday they'd found a long-lost Inca town. The ancient site was discovered in an isolated valley, about 100 kilometres west of the ancient Inca capital Cusco.