Yale to return Peru's disputed Machu Picchu objects
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Yale University will return artifacts taken 90 years ago from Machu Picchu and said on Monday that Peru is the rightful owner of thousands of objects found at the Inca citadel.
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Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was expected to be extradited from Chile to Peru on Saturday to face trial on charges of corruption and the killing of 25 people by death squads during his rule.
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The U.S. ambassador formally returned a 300-year-old wooden altarpiece to Mexico on Tuesday that thieves had tried to sell in the United States.
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Archaeologists said Tuesday they have unearthed 22 graves in northern Peru containing a trove of pre-Inca artifacts, including the first "tumi" ceremonial knives ever discovered by archaeologists rather than looted by thieves.
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LIMA - Former president Alberto Fujimori returned to Peru yesterday to face charges of corruption and sanctioning death-squad killings, a grim homecoming for the strongman who fled the country seven years ago as his government collapsed in scandal.
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A statue and a gold wreath are to be returned to Greece by the Getty museum
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A Texas museum that teaches creationism is counting on the auction of a prehistoric mastodon skull to stave off extinction. The founder and curator of the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum, which rejects evolution and claims that man and dinosaurs coexisted, said it will close unless the Volkswagen-sized skull finds a generous bidder.
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IQUITOS, Peru -- A few miles downriver from this city in the western Amazon jungle, Andres Alvarado hops off a boat and walks up a muddy path to a hollowed-out log resting on a wooden stand. He beats the log with a stick, sending a series of low-pitched tones into the rain forest.
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After a long standoff with the government of Peru, Yale University has agreed to return a large group of artifacts that were excavated at Machu Picchu in a historic dig by a Yale explorer in 1912.
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Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori lost his battle against extradition from Chile on Friday and was due to be taken to Lima to face charges of human rights abuse and corruption.
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LIMA, Peru  - Former Peruvian President Alberto  Fujimori's bank accounts contain millions of dollars, much more  than he could earn and potential proof that he stole large sums  of state money during his 10-year rule, a Supreme Court judge  said on Saturday.
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After nearly a year of negotiations, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has agreed to return a rare fourth-century B.C. gold funerary wreath to Greece that cultural officials there contend was illegally removed from Greek soil.
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Spain may send its navy to stop and search two U.S. boats suspected of carrying treasure from ancient shipwrecks belonging to Spain, Culture Minister Carmen Calvo said on Tuesday.
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An Ethiopian national treasure, the ancient Axum Obelisk that was plundered by Italian fascist invaders in 1937, will be returned by Rome in April, Italy's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
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Remains believed to be of an American soldier killed in Cambodia decades ago during the Vietnam War were flown Monday to the United States for forensic analysis.
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Ivory statues, Buddhist carvings, gold coins and thousands of other precious objects from the Kabul Museum feared stolen or destroyed under Soviet occupation and Taliban rule have been found, an American archaeologist has said.
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A fine arts gallery and federal prosecutors have reached an agreement to return a 17th-century carved altar piece to a rural Peruvian village church from where it was allegedly stolen.