21 November 2010

PERU: Garcia Says Yale Will Return ALL Machu Picchu Artifacts.

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     On national TV, President Alan Garcia announced that Yale University has decided to return ALL all the artifacts removed from the Machu Picchu and held by it since 1912.
   Garcia said former Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo, the  director of Yale's Center for the Study of Globalization, told him of  the university's decision to hand over “all of the items, fragments and pieces that were taken from Machu Picchu by Mr. Hiram Bingham almost a century ago.”