The ancient Inca had no known written language, but they may have used an intricate language of knots. Khipu, or quipu, taken from the Quechua word for “knot,” are collections of cotton or ...

Francisco Pizarro and his fellow conquistadors supposedly wiped out the last of the Incas nearly 500 years ago, but you'd never know it in Cuzco, their old capital.

Archaeologists say the Incas, brought down by the Spanish conquest, used khipus — strands of cords made from the hair of animals such as llamas or alpacas — as an alternative to writing.

You didn’t need to understand Spanish, much less the Inca language of Quechua, to grasp the ancient race and class conflicts played out in “Santiago.” The haunting, dreamlike drama by Peru ...

Some 10m people in Peru and nearby countries speak Quechua, the Incas’ language of empire, whose use the Spaniards discouraged. Peruvians still hand-weave textiles with bright patterns.

Because the Inca language has no written form -- it has long been considered the only major Bronze Age civilization without a written language -- and due to the destruction of their heritage by ...

Because the Inca language has no written form — it has long been considered the only major Bronze Age civilization without a written language — and due to the destruction of their heritage by ...

On Nov. 16, 1532, Francisco Pizarro first encountered the Inca emperor Atahualpa in the town of Cajamarca in the northern highlands of Peru. Atahualpa was accompanied by an army of several ...