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MANNY MEDRANO

Imagine if you could find a way to crack a secret code that would let us rediscover the history and traditions of an ancient people.

Manny Medrano is a PhD student in history at Harvard University in Massachusetts. He’s an expert in the study of, the knotted string record-keeping devices used by the ancient Inca. Today, scholars can only partially understand their messages. While still a college student, Medrano had a breakthrough in

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