Claire Gilbert's List: Yale and Machu Pichu

• Peruvian government contended that the artifacts were merely on loan and that  their return was long overdue. Yale disagreed, arguing that it kept only those  objects that it fully owned after returning any loaned objects in the 1920s.
• threatening to sue the university
• official ownership rights to all of the artifacts will go to Peru.
• collaborative relationship between Yale and Peru
• museum to be built in Cusco, a historic city near Machu Picchu. The new museum,  for which Yale will serve as an advisor
• Museums  worldwide are facing pressure from countries like Greece and Italy to return  ancient artwork and other cultural artifacts
• J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, Calif., returned four Italian ceramic  objects dating from the 4th and 5th centuries B.C. and the Princeton University  Art Museum agreed to return 15 disputed antiquities, including a Greek painted  vase dating from 510-500 B.C.

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• Yale historian Hiram Bingham rediscovered Machu Picchu  in 1911, and backed by the National Geographic Society, he returned with large  expeditions in 1912 and 1915
• carted out crates filled with archaeological finds
• • great links to newspaper articles
• agreed to return to the government of Peru some of the artifacts and human  remains that one of its professors removed from the ancient Incan city of Machu  Picchu nearly 100 years ago.
  
• new conceptual framework for collaboration, with a focus on Machu Picchu
• Yale will acknowledge Peru's title to all the excavated objects including the  fragments, bones and specimens from Machu Picchu
• The find by Bingham, a colorful adventurer who bushwhacked paths across Central  and South America, brought the mysteries of the apparently lost Incan  civilization to the attention of the Western world. Bingham promised to return  to Peru any artifacts he took back to New Haven for study, but not everything  made its way back.
  

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