US university 'holds 40,000 Machu Picchu items'

A top US University is holding some 40,000 artifacts from the famed Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, a Peruvian government official heading efforts to return the pieces said.

Peru’s government and Yale University reached an agreement last September to return 4,000 pieces – including mummies, ceramics and bones – that were taken a century ago from what has become one of the world’s most famous archaeological sites.