Dr. Thompson found the quipu in a basket of weaving materials included in a collection purchased ten years ago. As the Museum then boasted no expert on Peruvian archeology, the collection was stored.

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.

Quipu means knot in Quechua, the dominant indigenous language in the region. Advertisement You might mistake a quipu for a brightly colored necklace or headdress, but it is a communication device.

The Australian Museum’s new exhibition, Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru, ... The Excel or Xero spreadsheet of the day was the quipu (pronounced kee-pu) – and, ...

The Quipu superstructure is enormous, spanning 1.4 billion light years ... B ö hringer saw the ropes in a museum near ...

Although counting with knots may seem alien and impractical to people living in the 21 st century, using a quipu isn’t as confusing as it appears. Because the strings are arranged vertically ...

In another shot to our cosmic ego, scientists have discovered a new superstructure, named Quipu, that stretches 1.39 billion light-years across and contains the equivalent mass of 200 quadrillion ...

Quipu has the same mass as a staggering 200,000,000,000,000,000 copies of the sun, researchers say.

The researchers say that Quipu was so obvious in the data that it immediately caught their attention. Finding the largest known object in the universe isn’t just an exciting achievement, though.

Quipu is the largest structure we've ever found in the universe. It and the other four superstructures the researchers found contain 45% of the galaxy clusters, 30% of the galaxies, 25% of the ...

The Quipu superstructure is enormous, spanning 1.4 billion light years ... B ö hringer saw the ropes in a museum near Santiago, Chile, ...