Peru president accuses Yale of Inca 'robbery'
Peruvian President Alan Garcia has demanded that Yale University returns the archeological treasures its researchers "looted" from the country's Machu Picchu site in the early 1900s.
Peru says Yale took around 40,000 artefacts including pottery, jewellery and bones from the site in the Peruvian Andes.
The artefacts were sent out of Peru after a Yale alumnus, American explorer Hiram Bingham, rediscovered Machu Picchu in 1911.
The Andean country argues the objects were lent to Yale for 18 months but never sent back....
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Peru says Yale took around 40,000 artefacts including pottery, jewellery and bones from the site in the Peruvian Andes.
The artefacts were sent out of Peru after a Yale alumnus, American explorer Hiram Bingham, rediscovered Machu Picchu in 1911.
The Andean country argues the objects were lent to Yale for 18 months but never sent back....