As you climb the ancient trail of the Incas and catch glimpses of Machu Picchu, situated on a mountaintop in the Sacred ...

The director of the Tate discusses the measures that the global museum sector is taking to address the climate and ...

Extending credit to Colombian micro-entrepreneurs to reducing maternal morbidity rates in Ethiopia to delivering lifesaving ...

Researchers investigating the ancient Caral civilisation must contend with dwindling state support, violent land traffickers and robbers ...

From the quipu to the conquistadors, writer Rob Rath talks about cool stories we couldn't quite squeeze into the series, as well as some of the mistakes we made (like the impossibly fast runners) in ...

While other runners were allowed to carry messages, only the Chasquis were qualified to carry and interpret the mysterious quipu of the Inca. Meaning knot in Quechua, a quipu is a series of elaborate ...

A few scholars among the settlers got their heads around wampum belts functioning as memory cues for North American tribes. Even fewer studied the quipu, the string writing used in the Incan Empire.