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« on: December 17, 2008, 10:52:48 pm »

Peru sues Yale to recover Machu Picchu relics
12/10/2008 | 11:06 PM

Email this | Email the Editor | Print | Digg this | Add to del.icio.us HARTFORD, Connecticut — Peru is suing Yale University to recover thousands of Incan relics excavated by an American explorer at Machu Picchu.

Explorer Hiram Bingham shipped thousands of ceramics, textiles and bones to the New Haven, Connecticut, university after rediscovering Machu Picchu in 1911. The mountaintop ruins are Peru's main tourist attraction.

Peru sought to reclaim the artifacts in 2006, but an agreement to share them stalled last year.

Yale representatives met Peru's foreign minister in September, but failed to reach a deal.

Peru says Yale has more than 40,000 Machu Picchu artifacts.

The lawsuit was filed Dec. 5 in a federal court in Washington and claims the artifacts are central to the history and heritage of Peru.

The court document also says that Yale is wrongfully, improperly and fraudulently holding the items. - AP

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/138692/Peru-sues-Yale-to-recover-Machu-Picchu-relics
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Peru foreign minister defends lawsuit against Yale
12/12/2008 | 01:05 AM

Email this | Email the Editor | Print | Digg this | Add to del.icio.us LIMA, Peru — Peru sued Yale University over thousands of Inca artifacts excavated by a U.S. scholar because the university "never made a serious effort to negotiate" the return of the items, Peru's foreign minister says.

"The government of Peru authorized that the pieces leave the country on loan. Thus, Yale has no right to demand certain things in order to return" objects it does not own, Belaunde told Lima-based RRP radio late Wednesday.

In a suit filed Dec. 5 in Washington, the South American nation is demanding the Ivy League university return what it says are more than 40,000 artifacts taken by famed scholar Hiram Bingham III between 1911 and 1915.

Responding to the lawsuit, Yale said Tuesday it was disappointed that Peru decided not to honor a 2007 agreement that would have returned many of the artifacts.

The university says the deal would have returned all "museum quality objects" after Peru builds a jointly financed museum that meets "standard technical requirements for security and preservation."

Belaunde said that Peru already possesses museums that meet international standards for preserving the pieces. He also called "unacceptable" terms that would have let Yale keep thousands of fragments of artifacts as research materials "for 99 more years."

Peru is demanding that all the pieces be returned immediately and that Yale pay monetary damages on several counts for fraudulently holding the relics for decades. It says the monetary damages will be proven at trial and that each count "far exceeds $75,000." - AP

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/138942/Peru-foreign-minister-defends-lawsuit-against-Yale
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