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Peru to Sue Yale University for Inca Artifacts

November 9th, 2008 in Criminal / Litigation / Repatriation
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Peru has reportedly approved a plan to sue Yale for thousands of Inca artifacts excavated by a U.S. scholar at Machu Picchu.

On a related note, officials from the Simferopol Art Museum in south Ukraine told Germany’s Foreign Ministry the museum [they] “had no plans to give up” the 87 paintings thought originally to have belonged to the Suermondt- Ludwig Art Museum in the German city Aachen.

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