An Australian tourist has died after falling into a ravine whilst hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru. Matthew Paton’s body was found on Thursday evening local time, his employer, Victoria ...

For centuries, the vanished Inca fortress of Ancocagua existed only in lore. Now, at a mountaintop site in Peru, researchers are zeroing in on a discovery that could reshape what we know of the empire ...

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As reported by Cambridge University, each knot, each position, carries meaning in a structured way. Other researchers, including Sabine Hyland, have suggested that quipus may encode linguistic ...

Before smartphones, before transistors, before written language, the Inca were running an information system. Scientists just proved their knotted cords can power spreadsheets, encryption, and file ...

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A hillside in Peru covered by more than 5000 aligned holes may have been a giant Inca accounting device – a spreadsheet, but on a monumental scale. Tracing across the slopes of Monte Sierpe (Serpent ...

The growth of the Inca Empire can only be described as meteoric. Though precise dates for its beginnings remain elusive, the realm known to the Inca as Tahuantinsuyu, or "The Four Parts Together," ...

Inca bureaucrats recorded all the goings-on in their bustling empire using knotted cords called khipu, where the position and order of the knots represented numbers. They relied on the khipu system to ...