Peru’s Culture Minister to travel to Yale for talks on Machu Picchu artifacts

Peru’s Culture Minister Juan Ossio is planning to meet with authorities from Yale to discuss retrieving thousands of archaeological artifacts taken from Machu Picchu by American historian Hiram Bingham nearly a century ago, state news agency Andina reported. “We are thinking of traveling to the United States. I am going to request an appointment with [...]

Peru authorities crack down on smuggling of antiquities, return ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets to Iraq

Peruvian authorities and the Andean country’s National Culture Institute, INC, have been leading a campaign to stamp out the trade in antiquities illegally smuggled from Peru, reporting the seizure of more than 1,200 cultural and national heritage artifacts in 2008. “Last year, we stopped 1,235 cultural objects from being smuggled out of Peru,” said the [...]