{"id":5547,"date":"2012-11-12T19:14:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T00:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/?p=5547"},"modified":"2023-08-15T19:32:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T00:32:46","slug":"yale-return-final-shipment-of-machu-picchu-artifacts-to-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/2012\/yale-return-final-shipment-of-machu-picchu-artifacts-to-peru\/5547\/","title":{"rendered":"Yale returns final shipment of Machu Picchu artifacts to Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Originally published November 12, 2012]<\/strong> The final shipment of Machu Picchu artifacts arrived Monday in Cusco from Yale University in 127 crates aboard a Peruvian military plane, Radioprogramas reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dr. Lucy C. Salazar, the Yale anthropologist who co-curated the 2003 Machu Picchu exhibition at the Peabody Museum, said these final fragments are not exhibit-quality objects and would pass to the laboratories of Cusco’s San Antonio Abad National University for study.<\/p>\n

Representatives from the Ministry of Culture and the Regional Directorate of Culture of Cusco, and Yale University were scheduled to meet to conduct a full inventory of the final delivery.<\/p>\n

\"Machu<\/a>This is the third and last shipment of archaeological artifacts that Yale has returned to Peru under the Memorandum of Understanding signed with the Government of Peru.<\/p>\n

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Among the items were pottery fragments, stone pieces and plant and animal remains, unearthed between 1911 and 1916 by Yale history professor Hiram Bingham, the scientific “discoverer” of Machu Picchu.<\/p>\n

Yale agreed to return the archaeological relics to Peru after decades of legal wrangling<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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