The quipus were managed by quipucamayocs, which means "quipu authority." These administrators were the record keepers, accountants, bookkeepers, mathematicians, census takers, and historians of ...

Some experts believe 'quipus,' or colored strings, are a record of the South American empire. But, so far, no one can decipher them. History of Andean Incas May Be Tied Up in Knots - Los Angeles Times ...

Quipus continue to inspire contemporary Andean American art. Chilean poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña, for example, began creating quipus when she was still a teenager.

Quipus have been tying up British textile engineer William Burns for half of the nearly 50 years he has lived in Peru. "Walking around museums with my daughters, I became fascinated with the Incas ...

Hoard of Incan ‘calculators’ unearthed: 25 'quipus' reveal record-keeping of culture that had no written language. Quipus are an ancient string device used throughout the Inca Empire ...

Quipus, or khipu, which means knots or talking knots in Quechua, were used to administer the vast empire of the Incas, which lasted for about a century until 1533. No one alive knows just how.

The ancient Incas used quipus — knotted cords — to manage their vast empire. Even today, much of this mysterious writing system remains undecoded. Some South American communities are teaching what is ...

Previously the oldest known quipus, often associated with the Incas whose vast South American empire was conquered by the Spanish in the 16th century, dated from about A.D. 650.

LIMA, PERU—Twenty-five well-preserved quipus, made of multiple knotted wool and cotton strings of different colors, were discovered at the archaeological complex of Incahuasi in Peru’s ...

The “Quipus” are inspired by ancient Andean methods of using knots for record keeping and storytelling, and they, like the “Precarios,” have a subtle political dimension.