Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

A discovery made in a remote mountain village high in the Peruvian Andes suggests that the ancient Inca used accounting devices made of knotted, colored strings for more than accounting. The devices, ...

THE Incas left no doubt that theirs was a sophisticated, technologically savvy civilisation. At its height in the 15th century, it was the largest empire in the Americas, extending almost 5000 ...

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For years, historians believed that only trained Inca specialists were responsible for handling the records of emperors. Those records weren’t kept on paper. They were made with cords and knots called ...

Daniel Cossins discusses the possibility that Inca khipu might encode stories as well as numbers (29 September, p 33). Apparently those master navigators and peerless blue water sailors the ...