“Peru eyes lawsuit against Yale over relics”

“Peru is preparing a lawsuit against Yale University to retrieve artifacts taken nearly a century ago from the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, a Peruvian cultural official said Wednesday.” Explorer Hiram Bingham dug up the artifacts during three expeditions to the site in in 1911, 1912 and 1914. (AP/CNN, Nov. 30)(via Dave Zincavage). For a […]

“Peru is preparing a lawsuit against Yale University to retrieve artifacts taken nearly a century ago from the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, a Peruvian cultural official said Wednesday.” Explorer Hiram Bingham dug up the artifacts during three expeditions to the site in in 1911, 1912 and 1914. (AP/CNN, Nov. 30)(via Dave Zincavage). For a critique of the movement to prescribe “repatriation” of cultural treasures to the countries on whose territory they were originally found, see the article linked here Apr. 28.

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  • Wouldn’t there be a statute of limitations problem with such a suit? Or is there a special exception to normal statutes of limitations when the subject is an ancient artifact?

  • Antiquities prosecutions

    Melik Kaylan has advice for curator/jailbirds (“A Civilized Solution to Looted Art”, WSJ/OpinionJournal.com, Dec. 14). More: Apr. 28, Dec. 5….