[Lily4Jesus]

"Who did the hard work or research and excavation? The Americans from Yale University did. Peru was too poor and disinterested to bother."

...So what, does it gives you the title to keep it. How about some honor and respect for history. So the poor people doesn't deserve it ah?

Give me a brake and grow up.

[Little Ray]

Finders, Keepers, dude. If I find a doubloon (or a heap of 'em), the Spanish government has no claim on my find 'cause it came from a wrecked galleon.

Dunno about the artifacts, but if Peru didn't make a deal to assert ownership or arrange for their return when they were discovered, they should be surely outta luck.

As for Iraq, it would be spoils of war. We shoulda moved all the worthwhile stuff out of Iraqi National Museum to the Smithsonian.