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"Located in the cloud-forested eastern slope of the Andes mountains, the ruin is believed to belong to the ancient Chachapoya [...] from about the ninth to the fifteenth century AD."

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"The ancient Andean empire built great cities but left no written records – except perhaps in mysterious knotted strings called khipu. Can an anthropologist and some mathematicians crack the code

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South American tribe conceptualise time in the opposite way to the rest of us

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Gaze on the hauntingly fragile Inca mummy as scientists atop Mount Ampato in Peru literally stumble onto the find of a career.

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An excellent review of the new book on indigenous identity in Bolivia and South America.

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