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 ...

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

By 1532, the Inca Empire was embroiled in a civil war that had decimated the population and divided the people's loyalties. Atahualpa, the younger son of former Incan ruler Huayna Capac, had just ...

A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.

Video. In Cusco, Peru, the Inti Raymi festival was reenacted by hundreds in elaborate robes, celebrating the ancient sun ...

With “P’unchaw,” the photographer Victor Zea captures the light falling on Cuzco, Peru, where people have mixed Catholic and ...

The Assyrian Empire: Governors, Diplomats and Soldiers. Posted 2019-12-18 16:52 GMT. Royal Lion Hunt. From the Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Kalhu (Nimrud), ... antiquity and provides ...

While laying gas pipes in Lima’s Puente Piedra district, workers uncovered a 1,000-year-old pre-Inca mummy just half a metre underground. View on euronews ...

Four mummified llamas buried alive 500 years ago by the Inca Empire found perfectly preserved in Peru, revealing secrets of ...

Andean people of the past looked at these strings as a record of the climate, and they studied them to understand patterns.

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