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Peru asks Yale University to return artifacts before July 7, 2011

Peru's President Alan Garcia has asked Yale University to return the Inca artifacts found in Machu Picchu. More than 40,000 artifacts are currently in Yale's possession, reports El Comercio.

Peru filed a lawsuit in 2008 demanding Yale to return these pieces, taken from the ancient Inca citadel by Hiram Bingham III between 1911 and 1915.

The legal process is being carried out under U.S. laws.

President Garcia told the press that those ancient pieces should be back in Peru before July 7, 2011, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the re-discovery of the citadel....
Read entire article at Living in Peru