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Researchers try to unravel: Incas' past, using quipus
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LIMA, Peru - To the casual observer, they appear to be little more
than multicolored tangles of arm-length strings. But a growing number
of experts think quipus may hold the secrets of the Inca Empire.
The Incas built the greatest pre-Columbian empire in South
America, unifying Andean cultures from what is modern day Colombia to
Chile for about a hundred years before they fell to Spanish
conquistadors in the early 1500s.
They left extensive roads, irrigation systems and imposing...
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