You might mistake a quipu for a brightly colored necklace or headdress, but it is a communication device. Unlike their Mayan and Aztec counterparts, the Incas had no written language.

Is it possible to understand the Universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...

Named after the Incan system of knotted cords used for recording data, Quipu stretches 1.3 billion light-years across—more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way.

Quipu: A Modern Mystery The Incas had a system of accounting that relied on the quipu. Cords of various colours were attached to a main cord with knots. The number and position of knots as well as the ...

Made up of one long filament and multiple side filaments like a Quipu cord, the structure is complex. Potentially making it the largest object in the universe in terms of length, it spans roughly ...

Like a Quipu cord, the structure is complex, made up of one long filament and multiple side filaments. It spans roughly 1.3 billion light-years ...

Quipu, named after the Incan system of knotted cords used for recording information, spans an astonishing 1.3 billion light-years-a distance over 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way.

The quipu was, it’s true, not ... This looped and knotted section of cords is not only beautiful, it's also a 500-year old mathematical tool. "I'd love to know what the deal was with the ...

Newly discovered Quipu, a superstructure in which galaxies group together in clusters and clusters of clusters, is the largest known structure in the universe in terms of length, scientists claim.