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In 1979 William Burns Glynn postulated that the Inca, long thought to be lacking a written language, actually had an alphabet of twelve letters and ten numbers. In his 1990 book Legado de Los Amautas

there is a growing consensus that the Inca had to have had a system of written language in order to form and maintain an empire that stretched across thousands of miles of rugged terrain.

Without something akin to the Rosetta Stone any theory about Inca writing is likely to remain nothing more than theory and speculation.

As ancient civilizations sprang up across the planet thousands of years ago, so too the Inca civilization evolved. As with all ancient civilizations, its exact origins are unknown. Their historic record, as with all other tribes evolving on the planet at that time, would be recorded through oral tradition, stone, pottery, gold and silver jewelry, and woven in the tapestry of the people.

The Inca Empire was quite short-lived. It lasted just shy of 100 years, from ca.1438 AD, when the Inca ruler Pachacuti and his army began conquering lands surrounding the Inca heartland of Cuzco, until the coming of the Spaniards in 1532.

In 1438 the Inca set out from their base in Cuzco on a career of conquest that, during the next 50 years, brought under their control the area of present-day Peru, Bolivia, northern Argentina, Chile, and Ecuador. Within this area, the Inca established a totalitarian state that enabled the tribal ruler and a small minority of nobles to dominate the population.

The cannibal launguage