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The speaking quipus in 16th century Peru: a manuscript revolutionises the history of the Tahuantinsuyu

Talk given by the historian Andrea Gatti within the cycle Saturdays at the Barbier-Mueller.

In the middle of the nineties, a Latin teacher and journalist from the Mattino di Napoli, Clara Miccinelli, stumbled on a find at her home: various parchment manuscripts that contributed surprising new facts in the scientific field about the history of the Inca and the Spanish conquest of Peru.

The most incredible finding about the document was the fact that it reveals, for the first time, that a type of quipus, the ‘royals’ was also used as a form of writing, cultural transmission and linguistic teaching.