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

LIMA, Peru — To the casual observer, they appear to be little more than multicolored tangles of arm-length strings. But a growing number of experts believe that “quipus” may hold the secrets ...

To the casual observer, they appear to be little more than multicolored tangles of arm-length strings. But a growing number of experts think "quipus" may hold the secrets of the Inca Empire. The ...

The most unusual manual counting device may well be the quipus used by various Andean communities in South America prior to the arrival of the Spanish and Portuguese conquistadors during the Age ...

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. San ...

Cecilia Vicuña was resisting dictatorship when she made the vibrant painting “La Vicuña,” in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

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Archaeologists in Peru have found a “quipu” writing system on the site of the oldest city in the Americas, indicating that the device was used 5,000 years ago.

Archaeologists have discovered a set of 25 well-preserved Inca quipus, an ancient string device thought to be used for record-keeping. The discovery was made in the ruins of Incahuasi, just south ...

Quipus, which are thought to have been used for record keeping, are usually found in a funerary context, but this collection was unearthed in warehouses, or kallancas.

The Bolivian government recently announced a new program where high school students attending their final year will have access to a new laptop. These computers, called “Quipus,” are being assembled ...