Anthropologist and National Geographic Society Explorer, Dr Sabine Hyland, talks about her work in the Peruvian Andes and discusses what it is like to work with National Geographic for a documentary about her research. Sabine will talk about her search for ancient khipus – the mysterious knotted cord texts that served the Incas instead of writing – and her discovery of remote Andean communities where khipus were used as writing until 60 years ago.

A resident of Anstruther, Sabine is a Reader of Anthropology at St Andrews University and is the author of numerous books, most recently The Chankas and the Priest: A Tale of Murder and Exile in Highland Peru.