[Publius6961]

It's their heritage not Yale's. The Brits and the rest should be turning everything back to the Egyptians and Greeks. It's not finders keepers.

Why is it that those who know the least say it the loudest?
Actually, in all instances had the locals maintained control of their "priceless" heritage, they would have all disappeared. The dummy response to this is "so what it's theirs". At least I agree with this last part.

We are talking curiosities here; the nexus between the originators and the current activists is tenuous at best and if it makes Yale or anyone else feel good to send the stuff back, good for them.
Other than curiosity value, and the providing a lot of "jobs" to the otherwise unemployable, what good is it?

[Recon Dad]

Your reasoning is directly out of an era when the colonial powers ran around the world digging up and taking anything they wanted. For the most part there were very little controls in the countries at question at the time these artifacts were found.
What about the archaeologists of today? Using your logic they should still be carrying off their loot, if the governments of today are not worthy of receiving the returned artifacts of the past.
Displaying artifacts in London or Hartford or displaying in Giza or Peru I believe the latter is the proper location venue.

[dennisw]

Don't give the Peruvians jack. They didn't invest in sweat toil effort and smarts to recover these treasures. Yale should keep them where they'll be safe and exhibited. I reject this anti-colonialism narrative. The Spanish controllers of Peru should have done the hard work but they didn't, Yale did