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

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

Spain’s moneymaking interest in the former Inca Empire would be revived in 1545 ... at the rear of the Royal Alcázar. For days, the people of Seville went to gawk at the Inca treasure.

Lake Titicaca was a sacred space to the ancient Andean empire of the Inca ... reverence for the lake, the Inca were probably influenced by traditions of the people who lived there before them ...

It’s been thought, based on descriptions by Spanish chroniclers, that very few people in the Inca empire knew how to make khipus. Only a few very high-ranking Inca bureaucrats supposedly knew ...

Unearthed in Peru, the small underground room may have been used for rituals involving psychoactive drugs. New research suggests these "exclusive" events were reserved for the elite ...

The election of Leo XIV to the papacy has put an unexpected spotlight on one of the most unusual treasures of Catholic ...

Mummies have returned to the Museum of Idaho as hundreds of community members gathered on opening day to learn more about ...

These quotes are from one of Donald Trump’s latest rhetorical blasts on his Truth Social site. Trump wanted to let everyone ...