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We thought the Incas couldn’t write. These knots change everything.

A lost language encoded in intricate cords is finally revealing its secrets – and it could upend what we know about Incan history and culture.
There are all sorts of varying factors in khipus: the color of the strings, the structure of the knots and the direction in which they were hitched.

newscientist.com/article/mg239

@corlin that's so cool, mesoamerican cultures are freaking amazing, its so sad the spaniards almost succeeded in wiping all these cultures off the planet

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