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 ...

SUCRE, Bolivia -- Just click "Qallariy" to begin. The word -- pronounced "KAH-lyah-ree" -- replaces "Start" on Microsoft Windows' familiar taskbar in a new Quechua translation of the program ...

During the siege, a stone from an Inca slingshot killed Pizarro's brother, John, but the Spaniards eventually scaled the walls and drove 1,500 Incas into three towers where, legend says, they ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

SIMON & SCHUSTER; 522 Pages; $30 On Nov. 16, 1532, Francisco Pizarro first encountered the Inca emperor Atahualpa in the town of Cajamarca in the northern highlands of Peru.

Yet Inca culture proved persistent. Some 10m people in Peru and nearby countries speak Quechua, the Incas’ language of empire, whose use the Spaniards discouraged.