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Untangling the Ancient Inca Code of Strings
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| Bridget Alex
Posted on 04/20/2017 8:28:45 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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Hyland studying a war indicator khipu. (Credit: William Hyland)
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posted on
04/20/2017 8:28:45 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Interesting.
The Incas invented String Theory.
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posted on
04/20/2017 8:30:40 AM PDT
by
samtheman
(Trump++)
To: BenLurkin
Professor Barnhardt of the Maya Research Center, who also studies South America, believes the khipu will be deciphered within the next two decades.
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posted on
04/20/2017 8:30:55 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Quien vive? CRISTO! Y a su Nombre? GLORIA! Y a su pueblo? VICTORIA!)
To: BenLurkin
anthropologist Sabine Hyland analyzed string color, fiber and twist direction to identify 95 unique signs enough to constitute a writing system ITS JUST STRING, DAMMIT!
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posted on
04/20/2017 8:31:46 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
To: BenLurkin
Just think of it. Had Hillary used the Inca Code of Strings to communicate with her staff instead of that unsecured home server, she’d be president today.
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posted on
04/20/2017 8:31:49 AM PDT
by
Leaning Right
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To: BenLurkin
Combinations of color, fiber and twist direction create 95 distinct symbols, a number thats within the range of logosyllabic writing systems, or those with signs for full words and phonetic sounds.This is particularly encouraging. The Maya writing system is also logosyllabic.
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posted on
04/20/2017 8:31:52 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Quien vive? CRISTO! Y a su Nombre? GLORIA! Y a su pueblo? VICTORIA!)
To: Tax-chick
believes the khipu will be deciphered within the next two decades.If you read it backwards, it says "Paul is a dead man"
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posted on
04/20/2017 8:32:55 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
To: Magnum44
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posted on
04/20/2017 8:33:32 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Quien vive? CRISTO! Y a su Nombre? GLORIA! Y a su pueblo? VICTORIA!)
To: BenLurkin
I think knots are swear words.
I would tie a knot in my shoes and my Dad would start swearing.
Same with the Drill Sergeants.
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posted on
04/20/2017 8:33:46 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/20/2017 8:34:12 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: BenLurkin
It says:
BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE..................
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posted on
04/20/2017 8:35:03 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
04/20/2017 8:35:43 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
To: Leaning Right
Or, she might have tripped and become a human yo-yo.
Well, technically, she already is a yo-yo.
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posted on
04/20/2017 8:38:22 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: BenLurkin
After being deciphered, will we learn anything important?
I’m a frayed knot.
(By the way, I’m surprised Hyland is not wearing archival gloves in the photo. She’s damaging a very old, fragile artifact by touching it.)
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posted on
04/20/2017 8:39:20 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
To: BenLurkin
These things played a big role in the Clive Cussler book, INCA GOLD.
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posted on
04/20/2017 8:42:22 AM PDT
by
BlueLancer
(Ex Scientia Tridens)
To: ClearCase_guy
I was going to post the same thing about no gloves!
To: ClearCase_guy
Im a frayed knot. ___________________________
LOL, that's both clever and very funny, thanks for making me laugh!
That said, I hope they decipher these things. The Spanish & Church did their best to destroy any "written" records of the Inca, Maya and Aztecs and I'm curious what insight to their cultures they might contain.
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posted on
04/20/2017 8:52:51 AM PDT
by
sailor76
(GO TRUMP!!! Make America Great Again!)
To: BenLurkin
Just wait until my cats get hold of them. They’ll change history in a minute flat.
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posted on
04/20/2017 9:08:17 AM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
To: ClearCase_guy
“Im a frayed knot.”
No need twine about it, be cord-ial.
To: ClearCase_guy
And people wonder why the Shroud of Turin carbon dating is screwy.
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posted on
04/20/2017 9:13:37 AM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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