UNCOVERING FACTUAL DATA ABOUT THE INCA EMPIRE requires a formidable team of experts: mathematicians, archaeologists, and historians. Mathematicians work to unravel the only concrete records left by people of the empire quipus, knotted strings that tabulated the Inca population and productivity down to the last dehydrated potato. Archaeologists dig up ancient temples, buried cities, and shrouded mummies that tell of a complex society. Historians delve into the chronicles of Spanish conquistadors, priests, and government clerks the only written records of the Inca culture. And all must separate fact from fiction, dealing with a culture whose history is intertwined with legends of stone warriors and visits from the gods. The task is made more difficult because the Inca Empire had no written language not even hieroglyphs or pictograms or numerical system. [download]
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