Roughly 21 kilometers off Peru’s southern coast, the Chincha Islands hold vast deposits of seabird guano accumulated over ...

The use of seabird poop as a fertilizer for corn and other food crops supported the expansion of pre-Inca civilizations ...

In 1532, in the city of Cajamarca, Peru, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro and a group of Europeans took the Inca ruler ...

Seabird poop played a key role in Chincha Kingdom agriculture, fueling economic growth and political influence in ancient ...

The Zapotecs were a major pre-Hispanic civilization that flourished in Oaxaca from circa 700-500 BC until the Spanish ...

A thriving kingdom in ancient Peru was feeding its agriculture with seabird poop centuries before European colonizers caught on to the material's value.

Before the Inca civilization rose to power in what’s now Peru, the Chincha Kingdom reigned as a prosperous society on the country’s southern coast. Now, scientists have discovered that seabird ...

The secret to a pre-Inca kingdom's power? Bird poop. New research shows how guano fertilizer transformed Peru's coastal desert into farmland.

New Z-Angle stacked DDR memory technology from Saimemory and Intel promises 2-3x more capacity and greater bandwidth than current solutions. The crisis particularly impacts consumer availability while ...

A longstanding suspicion that guano (bird droppings) from offshore islands drove the success of coastal communities in what is now Peru, probably sustaining the Inca Empire, has received scientific ...

When it comes to the success of ancient civilizations, the first things that come to mind are typically their military ...