Look who had them:
"Yale agrees to return Incan artifacts to Peru; Items were taken from excavation at Machu Picchu" by John Christoffersen, Associated Press / February 12, 2011
NEW HAVEN — Yale University announced yesterday that it will send back to Peru thousands of Incan artifacts removed from the famed Machu Picchu citadel nearly a century ago.
The agreement allowing for the return of the ceramic pieces, animal and human bones, and metal and stone objects came after Yale and Peru officials announced in November that they had resolved a long-running dispute over the artifacts....
The Machu Picchu ruins, perched 8,000 feet above sea level on an Andean mountaintop, are Peru’s main tourist attraction. The complex of stone buildings was built in the 1400s by the Inca empire that ruled Peru before the arrival of the Spaniards in the 16th century....
Who then visited a slaughter upon then.
Just one of the many holocausts of indigenous peoples the Europeans brought with them.
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