Researchers believe that a focus on brewing, sharing, and hosting beer-centric festivities was integral to the Wari's social ...

The Inca Empire managed vast territories without a written alphabet, relying instead on a mysterious system of knotted ...

Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a ...

Lake Titicaca was a sacred space to the ancient Andean empire of the Inca, which at its height in the early 16th century controlled territory from modern-day Colombia to Chile. The Inca built more ...

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

Sabine Hyland, Professor of World Religions ... Incan culture. Professor Hyland was invited to the remote, Peruvian indigenous community of Santa Leonor de Jucul to study their collection of ...

The Atlantic has a fascinating deep dive into khipus — long cords that the Inca tied knots into to preserve information. Few know how to read the knots, which are hundreds of years old and fragile.

a Professor of World Religions at the University of St Andrews. In a recent breakthrough, Hyland has finally managed to uncover crucial new insights into the use of quipus and their role in ancient ...

As modern scholarship revisits these ancient practices, a clearer picture emerges ... particularly Catholic priests. They often viewed Inca beliefs related to religion and magic as inferior or even as ...