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

The beginning of the end. With the arrival from Spain in 1532 of Francisco Pizarro and his entourage of mercenaries or "conquistadors," the Inca empire was seriously threatened for the first time.

Legend has it that he first killed his brothers and then led his sisters into a valley near Cuzco, ... the last remaining bite of the Inca empire, until it disappeared in 1572.

The Inca Empire managed vast territories without a written alphabet, relying instead on a mysterious system of knotted strings known as the khipu. Once dismissed as simple accounting tools, new ...

The lofty ambitions of the Inca. Rising from obscurity to the heights of power, a succession of Andean rulers subdued kingdoms, sculpted mountains, and forged a mighty empire.

First DNA analysis of Machu Picchu residents offers insight into Inca society DNA analysis, conducted largely at UC Santa Cruz’s Paleogenomics Lab and led by Anthropology Professor Lars Fehren-Schmitz ...

Spain’s moneymaking interest in the former Inca Empire would be revived in 1545 with the discovery of rich silver mines at Potosí ... First, 20 percent of the total ...

Beginning in the mid-15th Century, it fell in the 1530s with the arrival of Spanish conquistadores, led by Pizarro. This episode goes beyond famous sites like Machu Picchu and explores all aspects ...

Archaeologists found two 500-year-old quarries in Cañete mountains and trail transport network from final stage of Inca empire, photos show.

These writing systems, then—including, possibly, Inca khipus—could illuminate how and why our ancestors first adopted written language: a record of one of the most consequential changes in ...