A visit to the former Inca Empire reveals epic feats of construction and engineering that have withstood the test of time, all made without iron tools or draft animals. Over the course of several ...

The Capacocha ritual was one of the most significant religious ceremonies in the Inca Empire. It involved sacrificing children and young women to deities and sacred places at the summits of ...

Through quipus, which were transported via a system of relay runners, the Inca were able to keep a detailed record of everything that was produced, stored, and consumed in their empire.

Barack Obama visits a SpaceX hangar with Elon Musk at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, US, April 15, 2010. ALEX BRANDON / ASSOCIATED PRESS Elon Musk is trying to slash US federal spending, but ...

The researchers named this discovery “Quipu,” taking inspiration from the knotted string recording system once used by the Incas. Observed as a long strand with smaller threads branching off, the ...

After an Incan system of counting and storing numbers using knots on cards, the newly found structure is dubbed Quipu, reported Space.com. Made up of one long filament and multiple side filaments ...

Dubbed “Quipu” by its discoverers, this dense collection of concentrated galaxies and dark matter is changing how astronomers think about large-scale structures in the cosmos. The incredible discovery ...

Quipu is estimated to span an astonishing ... which is near the former home of the Inca Empire. The astronomer’s discovery is believed to be the largest known superstructure in the cosmos ...

Quipu is estimated to span an astonishing ... which is near the former home of the Inca Empire. By detecting radiation emitted by the galaxy clusters, scientists were able to confirm the presence ...

Discovered by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, Germany, the structure has been named Quipu, after the Incan counting system made from knotted rope. Hans Böhringer ...