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

High in the Andes, Cusco is more than just the gateway to Machu Picchu—it’s a vibrant cultural crossroads where Incan ...

Ongoing research from the University of St Andrews has discovered that khipus, the mysterious string writing of the Incas, ...

The Atlantic has a fascinating deep dive into khipus — long cords that the Inca tied knots into to preserve information. Few ...

The sixth edition of Inca Street Art has filled the streets of the capital of Raiguer with creativity, expression and ...

Peru’s 1,000 year old salt pans in Maras are still hand mined by local families, preserving Incan heritage and producing ...

Researchers studying an ancient form of string-writing used in pre-Columbian South America have unraveled new clues to a ...

When two spelunkers investigated what they thought was trash in a cave in Mexico, they discovered more than a dozen artifacts ...

Western scholars believe that Chinese civilization began with the Yinxu Ruins in Anyang, Henan province, a capital of the ...

Juan Pablo de la Puente Brunke, the World Monuments Fund representative in Peru, emphasized the importance of this discovery.

An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

The lines, considered a UNESCO World Heritage site, are enormous drawings of animals and plants etched in the ground some 2 000 years ago by a pre-Inca civilization. They are best seen from the sky.