Word: incan
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...missionaries serving in the most remote corners of the world, offering a modest contribution in return for two samples of the local currency. He would sell one and keep the other, a self-financing collection that eventually grew to more than 200,000 pieces--from ancient Etruscan rings and Incan gold to Kenyan elephant tails and Babylonian clay tablets, all of which he kept in a vault in the basement of his house...
...March 2006, Yale’s art collection fell under scrutiny. The Peruvian government sued Yale for the rights to archaeological materials excavated from the Incan ruin Machu Picchu nearly a century ago by explorer and Yale professor Hiram Bingham. In September 2007, the two sides structured an agreement that stipulated that Yale would cede ownership of the artifacts and return many of them to Peru as early as 2009. Yale would, however, be legally permitted to retain certain pieces for 99 years as part of a research collection...
FINDERS KEEPERS? More than 90 years after a Yale explorer discovered the ancient Incan city of Machu Picchu, the university has agreed to return hundreds of excavated artifacts to the Peruvian government...
...favorite approach, however, is a lesser-known alternative-the Short Inca Trail. For this, guides are also necessary and you'll be paying upwards of $250, but it's a sum you'll forget the instant you lay eyes on the great Incan city that is your goal...
...ruins of Chachabamba appear almost immediately, but the first real reward comes at the four-hour mark: Winay Wayna, the site of an ancient Incan settlement. Pause a while here to take in the terraces cut precariously into the mountainside, but remember that this is a mere dress rehearsal for the splendor that awaits...