Although keen on decipherment, Hyland admits that Inca khipus might represent more of a “proto–writing system” still coming into being when the Spanish invasion disrupted its development.

The Inca Empire managed vast territories without a written alphabet, relying instead on a mysterious system of knotted strings known as the khipu. Once dismissed as simple accounting tools, new ...

The burial belonged to a child who may have lived among fishermen from the Chancay culture, which thrived in Peru before the ...

📜 The Inca Empire: Out of Thin Air - There's a lot that we don't know for sure about the Inca Empire, because we have conflicting accounts among Spanish colonizers, as well as the fact that ...

Object Details Author Koch, Peter O. 1953- Contents A fire that burns deep -- In search of Birú -- A second chance -- A test of will -- Inca heritage -- The empire of the sun -- Return of the ...

In the mid- to late-16th century, the Inca empire—weakened by internal strife— fell to the rule of invading Spanish colonizers. The Inca left no written records of their underground ...

Object Details Author Bauer, Brian S Dearborn, David S. P (David Simon Paul) 1949- Contents 1. The Inca and the Sky -- 2. Historical Accounts Concerning Inca Solar Astronomy and the Year -- 3. The ...