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

Steeped in death, conquest, desire, and mystery, the legend of the lost Inca ... question whether Valverde ever existed, Reinhard added, but he says his directions do make sense against modern ...

It’s an open question whether contact with the Spanish changed the nature of khipu writing, and whether Inca-era khipus (pre-1530s) and colonial-era khipus record information in similar ways. A ...

Among the techniques employed were both aerial and terrestrial LiDAR scanning, photogrammetry, topographic recording, and technomorphological analysis—tools that for the first time enabled the ...

To understand everything that happens in Latin America in relation to the United States is to brush aside inconvenient ...

Professor Hyland said “Diet varied by status in the Inca Empire. Commoners ate a diet of potatoes, legumes, and quinoa grasses. Elites ate meat and drank large quantities of maize beer.

Khipus are knotted-string devices that were used in the Inca Empire for communication and for recording information. Khipus are little understood, in part because most khipus are in museum ...

Explanation: Samundragupta earned the title of ‘Napoleon of India’ from famous historian Vincent Smith due to his military conquest and expansion of the empire across a vast territory.

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