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

Long before colonization, the people of Peru kept track of important information using a mysterious coding system of strings ...

Up until the time of the Spanish conquest in the 16th century, Inca communities in the Andean highlands used a peculiar form of writing to record key events and keep track of their economic affairs.

In the Andean highlands near Lake Titicaca, Sebastian Quimicchi — an Inca from the town of San Pedro de Cocharcas — ...

A post shared on Reddit in September 2022, for example, claimed to show a 15-year-old girl who lived and was sacrificed 500 years ago during the Incan Empire. Pictured in these outlets is one of ...

which formed around A.D. 1100 and flourished in the valleys around Lima until it was absorbed into the Inca Empire in the late 15th century. Roberto Quispe, an archeologist who worked in the ...

Archaeologists found two 500-year-old quarries in the Cañete mountains and a trail network used during the final stage of the Inca empire, photos show. Photo from Qhapaq Ñan Project Atop some ...

Nearly 500 years after the collapse of the largest empire in the Americas, a single bridge remains from the Inca's extraordinary road system – and it's rewoven every year from grass. "I believe ...

The volume of all the gold in the Inca Empire would have been almost 14 times greater than all the gold then in Europe at that time. Pizarro’s plunder would have been worth more than $387 ...