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 ...

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

Stool transplants are cutting-edge experimental procedures, but using poop as medicine is hardly a modern idea. Ancient ...

Maize farmers in Peru’s Chincha Valley were fertilizing their crops with seabird poop as early as the year 1250 ...

When most people think about donating body parts to science or medicine, they might think of life-saving donations of organs, tissues or blood. But you can also donate your poo. The idea is to use it ...

ANCIENT Romans used human poo to treat common ailments, archaeologists have revealed. The grim discovery is the first direct evidence that the ancient civilisation really was keeping human faeces ...

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

Archaeological analysis of items from a pre-Inca Peruvian kingdom reveals their prosperity was built on bird poop.