From the Hartford Courant, August 14, 2007, via Archaeologymagazine.com
Yale Will Give Peru A List Of Artifacts
Move May Ease Dispute Over Machu Picchu Discoveries
By KIM MARTINEAU
Yale has agreed to turn over to Peru an inventory of artifacts that explorer Hiram Bingham III carted back with him to New Haven after excavating Machu Picchu, the "lost" city of the Incas, in the Andean mountains nearly a century ago.
The breakthrough, which may ultimately help decide who gets to keep the ancient Incan artifacts, was reached this summer under Peru's new president, who appears willing to settle the dispute without resorting to the lawsuit threatened by his predecessor.
Peru's housing minister is expected to lead a delegation of Peruvians to New Haven next month to continue talks with Yale.
"Why should we pursue a lawsuit?" said Vladimír Kocerha, a spokesman for the Peruvian Embassy in Washington, D.C. "Things are progressing. We are talking to them. They are talking to us."
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