PERU: Garcia Demands Yale Return Machu Picchu Treasures Or Be Called "Looters."

TELEGRAPH/       President Alan Garcia is demanding that Yale University return some 40,000 archeological artifacts its researchers "looted" from Machu Picchu in the early 1900s.
"Either we come to an understanding regarding ... Machu Picchu, or we'll simply have to describe them as looters of treasures," stated Garcia.
The treasures were dispatched after Yale alumnus Hiram Bingham rediscovered Machu Picchu in 1911. Garcia claims the objects were lent to Yale for 18 months but never sent back. "Now is the time to start packing up the things and send then over together with the research. ... Silence would indicate that they are guilty of robbery," said Garcia.