Peru prepares lawsuit against Yale University to get back Machu Picchu relics.(NOTEWORTHY NEWS)

From: Diverse Issues in Higher Education | Date: December 29, 2005 | Copyright information

LIMA, PERU

Peru is preparing a lawsuit against Yale University to retrieve artifacts taken nearly a century ago from the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, says a Peruvian government official.

Peru has held discussions in recent years with Yale seeking the return of nearly 5,000 artifacts, including ceramics and human bones that explorer Hiram Bingham III dug up during three expeditions to Machu Picchu in 1911, 1912 and 1914.

"Yale considers the collection university property, given the amount of time it has been there," says Luis Guillermo Lumbreras, chief of Peru's ...

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