Anthropologist Fernando Astete and his staff often receive well-deserved accolades for their work running the day-to-day operations of Machu Picchu, as well as overseeing the protection and preservation of the Inca citadel.
The Yale Daily News is reporting that crates marked “fragile” are already filled with artifacts excavated from Machu Picchu and stacked in a corner room in a building on Yale University’s West Campus, ready to go.
An agreement signed Friday between Yale University and Peru’s National University of San Antonio Abad in Cusco will usher the return of thousands of artifacts to Cusco a century after Hiram Bingham removed them from Machu Picchu, the celebrated “lost city” of the Inca.
[Originally published December 22, 2010]
