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In the 13th century, Arab weavers are said to have discovered that instead of snipping unneeded lengths of twine from finished products, they could braid it into an attractive, decorative fringe with a series of simple knots. Slowly the technique spread north to Europe. In 1689 when William of Orange...
The Incas, whose sudden appearance here may well amaze you, had a just punishment for the Spaniards who were torturing them to find where Inca gold was hidden. When they captured a Spaniard they melted gold and poured it down his throat. David Lean should, I think, be stuffed with...
As an art, they have been traced back 4,000 years to the Egyptians. They appear in the culture of the Polynesians, the Maoris of New Zealand, the Mayas and the Incas. King George V, Czar Nicholas II and King Frederik IX of Denmark wore them. For years they have...
During the century before its fall to the conquistadors, Inca civilization flourished with startling grandeur. Inhabiting the Andean slopes from what is now Ecuador and Peru down into Chile and western Argentina, the Incas cut paved roads through the mountains, laid out elaborate irrigation systems, erected high suspension bridges across...
Talking Boards. Now a distinguished German ethnographer has offered a fresh solution to the puzzle. The Incas, Dr. Thomas S. Barthel told the 39th International Congress of Americanists in Lima last week, did indeed have a primitive script. It has remained available, though unrecognized, through the centuries. Further, said the...