Undeciphered Writing Systems - South American Scripts

South American Scripts

  • Quipu — Inca Empire, 15th century, is thought by some to have been a writing system, but is generally believed to be an accounting system.

Read more about this topic:  Undeciphered Writing Systems

Famous quotes containing the words south and/or american:

    ... while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.
    Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

    ... it was not very unusual at Washington for a lady to take the arm of a gentleman, who was neither her husband, her father, nor her brother. This remarkable relaxation of American decorum has been probably introduced by the foreign legations.
    Frances Trollope (1780–1863)