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 an ...

William Neuman reports on the importance of the new discovery for the New York Times: At the site called Incahuasi, about 100 miles south of Lima, excavators have found, for the first time, several ...

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In Clive Cussler’s thriller Inca Gold, a crucial clue in an international treasure hunt is encoded in an ancient tangle of knotted, colored strands. Using a computer to identify patterns, an expert ...