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 colour of each cord ...

Quipu, Hercules, Serpens–Corona Borealis and Sculptor–Pegasus are all larger than the fifth and final superstructure highlighted in the study, the Shapley supercluster, which had previously held the ...

Its name, inspired by Inca quipus, evokes its complex filamentary shape, resembling a network of knots and cords. The superstructure is distinguished by a main filament surrounded by secondary ...

While much of the world used stone tablets or other media that didn’t survive the centuries, the Incas used something called quipu which encoded numeric data in strings using knots. Now the ...

Discovered by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, Germany, the structure has been named Quipu, after the Incan counting system made from knotted rope. Hans Böhringer ...

The name Quipu was borrowed from a counting system from the ancient Incan Empire that involved knotted ropes, similar to the structure of Quipu (just swap out ropes for massive galaxies ...

This visual similarity led to its name "Quipu," which is derived from the Incan word for knot. The scientists also chose the name due to the European Southern Observatory in Chile playing a role ...