Before this fateful attack, Pizarro’s brother, Pedro Pizarro, made a curious observation: other than the Inca himself, the Lord of Chincha was the only person at Cajamarca carried on a litter, a ...

B efore the rise of the Inca Empire, the Chichan Kingdom thrived for centuries on the southwest coast of Peru. At its height, the kingdom was home to an estimated 100,000 people w ...

According to a statement released by the University of Sydney, seabird guano may have been a major factor in the rise of Peru’s precolonial Chincha Kingdom, a powerful coastal polity that reached an ...

For nearly five centuries, something ancient has waited beneath Cusco, Peru’s cobblestone streets. While tourists photograph ...

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 ...