LIMA, Peru — Peru’s president announced Friday that Yale University has agreed to return thousands of artifacts taken away from the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu nearly a century ago.

Peruvian gas workers have made an astonishing discovery beneath the ancient streets of Lima this week, uncovering eight mummies and a number of Pre-Inca artifacts.

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A new analysis of hundreds of obsidian artifacts from the Aztec Empire has revealed the vast trade networks that supplied obsidian, sometimes even from rivals.

Located in a beautiful 16th-century colonial mansion that was once home to Spanish Admiral Francisco Alderete Maldonado, the Museo Inka (Inca Museum) boasts an eclectic assortment of Incan artifacts.

This supports a theory that the people believed to have been servants were brought from distant and varied populations across the Inca Empire and further into South America.

Surrounded by chicken restaurants and near the road leading to Peru's sole nuclear power station, the mummies are thought to predate the Inca empire.

“We cannot say that means that the Incan empire expanded much earlier than we thought, or that it simply means that the Incans had interactions with the people in these regions, where people ...