Posted on 06/09/2010 9:35:16 AM PDT by JoeProBono
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (AP) -- Sen. Christopher Dodd says Inca artifacts removed from Machu Picchu nearly a century ago and held by Yale University belong to the people of Peru.....
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And the USA belongs to the indians...
Dodd is an artifact that should be sent to Peru.
and Christopher Dodd belongs to the crooked financiers.
Had Yale not retrieved them, these artifacts would have been stolen and put on the black market like so much of the rest of Peru’s pre-Colombian patrimony. See: “The Lords of Sipan” and “Stealing History,” and read about the Moche treasures and how the Peruvians themselves treat their culture treasures.
While were at it, WTF are the Elgin Marbles in England and NOT IN GREECE WHERE THEY BELONG?
If Peru will take Dodd in the swap, hell yes/
Machu Picchu was rediscovered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham, a professor from Yale.
Bingham was searching for Vilcabamba, which was the undiscovered last strong-hold of the Incan Empire. When he stumbled upon Machu Picchu he thought he had found it, although now most scholars believe that Machu Picchu is not Vilcabamba. Hiram Bingham was an American historian from Yale University searching for one of the last Inca cities that resisted the Spanish invasion. The hist-orian was driven by the desire to find the last city of the Incas, he also heard rumours from Cuzco's University's North American rector about the existence of uncovered ruins in the Urubamba Jungle.
Bingham conducted extensive research in the regions of the Uruamba and Vilcabamba, when he made the astonishing discovery on July 24th, 1911, when he met a group of Quechuans who were actually living in Machu Picchu, also using the agriculture terraces there. He was lead to the site of the ruins of a six centuries-old Inca city by a group of locals who he met in the area.
Bingham conducted a survey of the area and completed archeological studies. Photographs are taken of the ruins still covered with dense vegetat-ion. It covered all of the buildings, many buildings were collapsed however, most of them were intact. The roofs of course, were gone because they were made of easily perishable materials, like wood and grass. Even a while after he discovered Machu Picchu, Bingham thought that it was Vitcos....."
And all that treasure in the British Museum belongs to the Greeks.
“On Seeing the Elgin Marbles”
- John Keats
My spirit is too weak - mortality
Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep,
And each imagined pinnacle and steep
Of godlike hardship tells me I must die
Like a sick eagle looking at the sky.
Yet ‘tis a gentle luxury to weep
That I have not the cloudy winds to keep
Fresh for the opening of the morning’s eye.
Such dim-conceived glories of the brain
Bring round the heart an undescribable feud;
So do these wonders a most dizzy pain,
That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude
Wasting of old time - with a billowy main -
A sun - a shadow of a magnitude.
Elgin_Marbles_British_Museum
First, the “people of Peru” ain’t gonna get ‘em. If we are very lucky, the government of Peru will preserve the artifacts in a museum with security and climate control and a reasonable access to the public.
More likely, it’ll be a temporary PR victory for the center-left (not Chavista, thank God) government in Peru and the artifacts will be forgotten.
And this “belong” business really bugs me. What? Just because your ancestors raped and pillaged their way to this place in antiquity, you get to own everything your eye can see? If something happens to be taken throughout history, you have some sort of blood tie to it from eternity?
I’m guessing nobody much minded that some geeky American dudes took some useless broken clay pots to Connecticut at the time and now they’re fussed all of a sudden?
You lost. Move on.
And all that treasure in the British Museum belongs to the Greeks.
All your base are belong to US.
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They do - belong to Peru.
Is there an argument against repatriating historic and artistic objects to the people who created them?
The people who created them have more than likely passed on;-{)
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