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

Long before colonization, the people of Peru kept track of important information using a mysterious coding system of strings ...

📜 The Inca Empire: A God Taken Hostage - Atahualpa vs. Francisco Pizarro. The Incas had never seen horses before, and it wasn't long before the Spanish had captured Atahualpa as a hostage for ...

Each June, the residents of four Indigenous communities in Peru rebuild the last Incan rope bridge. This is episode 48 of Stories of Resistance.

This supports a theory that the people believed to have been servants were brought from distant and varied populations across the Inca Empire and further into South America. “There were no ...

“We actually find people with ancestry from faraway places right at the beginning of the site,” said Fehren Schmitz. “We cannot say that means that the Incan empire expanded much earlier ...

after the Inca Empire conquered the Chincha people, who were native to the region. “It was all circumstantial,” says Stanish, “but it seemed to fit.” They also felt the holes were once ...

WHEN THE SPANIARDS CONQUERED THE INCAN EMPIRE IN THE 1500S ... YOU CAN SEE SOME PEOPLE WORKING HERE ARE ACTUALLY FAMILIES WHO ARE THE OWNERS OF THIS PLACE. SO THEY WERE WORKING SINCE GENERATIONS ...

I saw people commuting on the section in Cajamarca ... great valleys—Cuzco and Urubamba—that were the heart of the Inca empire. The small site itself was intriguing, significant in Inca ...

Both the Jucul and Rapaz khipus likely originated in Spanish colonial times, perhaps as early as the 1500s, after the Inca empire disintegrated but before the Andean people stopped using the ...