Still, Bingham’s work at Machu Picchu did reintroduce the larger world to one of the greatest archaeological sites of the Incan Empire — one that continues to fascinate historians to this day.

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.

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