Some Incan artifacts are once again at the center of an international debate. Nearly 100 years ago, an American archaeologist shipped thousands of antiquities from Machu Picchu in Peru to Yale ...

LIMA (Reuters) - Peru has filed a lawsuit against Yale University to recover relics taken nearly a century ago from the ancient Incan capital of Machu Picchu, the country's top tourist spot, the ...

In the early 1900s, Machu Picchu -- an Inca site perched high in the Andes mountains -- was well known to locals, but largely forgotten internationally. In 1911, explorer Hiram Bingham wrote about the ...

A little tip for the would-be Indiana Jones profiteers out there: Don’t sell your illegally plundered ancient artifacts on eBay. One seller learned that lesson the hard way last April, when ...

About the same time that Prescott Bush, grandfather of George W. Bush, was allegedly looting Geronimo's grave in Oklahoma, another Yale alumnus, Hiram Bingham, was also digging up Native American ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Peruvian Foreign and Culture Ministries on Friday exhibited 133 archaeological and cultural pieces handed over by museums in ...

DENVER (AP) - Dozens of artifacts are on their way back to Peru after being seized in the United States during investigations into the smuggling of cultural relics. Investigators from U.S. Immigration ...

LIMA, Peru – 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 yesterday.

LIMA, Peru -- Peru is preparing a lawsuit against Yale University to retrieve artifacts taken nearly a century ago from the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, a government official said Wednesday. Peru has ...

A book from the 1700s that a traveler tried to smuggle through Bush Intercontinental has been formally returned to the country of Peru, federal officials said today. The manuscript had been stolen ...