Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long before Spanish colonization, the indigenous people of Peru kept track of important dates and numbers, and perhaps even ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. From ancient times, bureaucrats have ...

SAN ANDRéS DE TUPICOCHA starts every year by swearing in new leaders, like many small towns in Peru. Instead of giving the office-holders a sash or medal it gives them a quipu, a coloured skein of ...

What exactly is a quipu, you ask? Well, a quipu is a creation that was used in Peru and throughout the Andean region during the Incan rule. Quipus consist of a woolen base string from which multiple ...

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people in the Andean mountains devised the quipu, an intricate system of colored threads and knots that kept records, told stories, created poems, and recorded ...

Archaeologists in Peru have found a “quipu” on the site of the oldest city in the Americas, indicating that the device, a sophisticated arrangement of knots and strings used to convey detailed ...

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 Lunahuana ...