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Source: NYT

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Untangling an Accounting Tool and an Ancient Incan Mystery

Archaeologists have made a discovery they hope could help unravel one of the most tenacious mysteries of ancient Peru: how to read the knotted string records, known as khipus, kept by the Incas.

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Untangling an Accounting Tool and an Ancient Incan Mystery