Report: Peru to Sue Yale for Inca Artifacts

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Peru has reportedly approved a plan to sue Yale for thousands of Inca artifacts excavated by a U.S. scholar at Machu Picchu.

State newspaper El Peruano said Sunday the Justice Ministry will assign a prosecutor to press the government's case against the Connecticut university.

It did not say when or where such a suit would be filed. Government officials could not immediately be reached to confirm the information.

Hiram Bingham sent thousands of ceramics, textiles and bones to Yale after rediscovering Machu Picchu in 1911.

Peru and Yale reached an agreement in 2008, but it fell through over a dispute over how many artifacts were to be returned.

The mountaintop Machu Picchu ruins are Peru's main tourist attraction.

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