More from the NYT: Buried in Peru’s Desert, Fossils Draw Smugglers

Excerpted from
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/world/americas/12peru.html?_r=1

By SIMON ROMERO and ANDREA ZARATE
Published by the NYT on December 11, 2010

"Peru is astonishingly rich in archaeological and paleontological sites, so much so that the issue is part of a delicate political debate here. The loss of national treasures to collectors from abroad has set off concerns about sovereignty, perhaps best exemplified by the feud between Peru and Yale University over Inca artifacts taken by Hiram Bingham, the American explorer typically credited with revealing the lost city of Machu Picchu to the outside world a century ago."...