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Inca Quipus: The Unique Knotted Records

The Inca civilisation had a unique method for record-keeping. They used knotted strings called ‘quipus’. 

 

Believed to be a blend of accounting and storytelling, quipus were not only used for census records and calendrical data but also for recording historical events, stories and even numeric values.



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