Disputed Antiquities

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Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale Univ. New Haven, Conn.

Incan Knife-Pendant
Last year Yale University reached an agreement in principle to return scores of artifacts taken from Machu Picchu by Hiram Bingham, the archeologist who first explored the 15th century Inca ruins in 1911.

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