Is it possible to understand the Universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...

Named after the Incan system of knotted cords used for recording data, Quipu stretches 1.3 billion light-years across—more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way.

A quipu usually consisted of cotton or camelid fiber strings. The Inca people used quipu for collecting data and keeping records, for monitoring tax obligations, for collecting census records, for ...

From compliance to stablecoins to microbusinesses, fintech labs germinate next-gen uses for AI. You wouldn’t think that the quipu—an abacuslike system of knotted cords used by the Incas for record ...

Long before colonization, the people of Peru kept track of important information using a mysterious coding system of strings and knots called a quipu.

The Quipu was a system of knotted cords used by the Incas to record and convey administrative data. Source: Latin American Studies Yet the Incas did not eliminate local dialects. Quechua became a ...

Quipus, used by the Incas during the sixteenth century, were sophisticated devices for recording and transmitting codified information. They are a part of the global history of data handling and ...

Researchers studying an ancient form of writing used by the Incas in pre-Columbian South America have unraveled new clues to a longstanding mystery. The research, undertaken by Professor Sabine Hyland ...

When it comes to fascinating ancient artefacts, this Andean nation has so much beyond Machu Picchu.

Newly discovered Quipu, a superstructure in which galaxies group together in clusters and clusters of clusters, is the largest known structure in the universe in terms of length, scientists claim.