Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long before Spanish colonization, the indigenous people of Peru kept track of important dates and numbers, and perhaps even ...

Scientists used the quipu’s data to build working spreadsheets, file systems, and encryption tools, rivaling conventional ...

Long before computers existed, the Inca people collected data and kept records using knotted strings known as quipu. That technology has inspired a new system for assessing gastrointestinal problems, ...

We think of data storage as a modern problem, but even ancient civilizations kept records. While much of the world used stone tablets or other media that didn’t survive the centuries, the Incas used ...

Before smartphones, spreadsheets, or even written alphabets as we know them, the Inca appear to have managed information in a ...

Traverso (who grew up in Peru) and Nan thought that the Incan technology of quipu could guide the design of a simpler diagnostic. Quipu devices, which consist of colored cords knotted in different ...

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Over the past 50 years, Cecilia Vicuña has been fascinated by the quipu, an ancient Incan device used by the aboriginal people of the Andes to record both history and narratives, as well as the ...