The ancient Inca had no known written language, but they may have used an intricate language of knots.

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 ...

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 ...

The vanished Inca civilisation of the Andes, long thought to have no writing, invented a seven-bit binary code to store information more than 500 years before the invention of the computer, argues ...

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.

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.

The Inca Empire ruled millions without a written language — at least not in the sense that we typically think of one, such as ...