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...Harvard team has begun to decipher Inca knotted strings, a breakthrough that would allow them to study the Inca Empire through its own records, rather than through artifacts or Spanish chronicles...
Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies Gary Urton and first-year archaeology graduate student Carrie J. Brezine used a new database to study patterns on the strings, known as khipu. The strings were used as a recording system in the Inca Empire, which reached its height in the late 1400s in what is now Peru...
...database, designed by Brezine, allows the researchers to compare color, thread, and knot configurations and uncover links between different khipu. The Inca usually organized the knots into levels that constituted a decimal place system, but the researchers also found knot configurations that represented place names rather than numerical data...
...earth, ruled by this very aggressive, rapidly expanding empire. That's what's normally called the Aztecs. There were all of these other societies. There were these large Mayan states that were basically in the Yucatan...Soon after that, [the explorers] went to Peru, and there was the Inca Empire, which stretched across a distance that if you put it on the map of Europe, would go from Stockholm to Cairo. It really was an enormous enterprise, possibly the world's biggest state at that time...
...were made by visitors from outer space rather than by the Peruvians, the National Institute of Culture accused her of inadvertently aiding "neo-Nazism" to discredit the country's culture. MacLaine was dismayed. During filming, locals took to calling her La Grinka (a gringa who seeks to become an Inca), and at a press conference last week she sought to make amends: "I profoundly believe that Peru is the repository of a splendiferous culture. If there were extraterrestrial beings that had visited the earth, Peru would be the place they would choose." With that graceful apology, apparently, the Inca-Grinka...