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Machu Picchu Research Paper

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Machu Picchu, one of the most famous cities in our world history obviously has many artifacts connected to it. Up until only short while ago these many artifacts were located at the Yale University in Connecticut. For a long time Peru, where Machu Picchu was located, fought with Yale to get the artifacts back. Yale at first stated that their systems in Peru were going to damage the artifacts even more. This research the university conducted allowed them to gain further knowledge into this time. Yale, in the end, would not give the artifacts to Peru until they were almost forced to in an agreement. Today, Peru still doesn’t have all the artifacts that were taken from them. This leads us to the question of whether or not artifacts should be taken …show more content…

This gigantic ocean liner, at its time, was the most famous and largest ship. The ship was known for the fact of how it was thought to be unsinkable. It was filled with new china, new beds, everything was new. While the ship may have been thought of as unsinkable this was not the case. On April 14, 1912 at 11:40 PM tragedy struck. The unsinkable ship had hit an iceberg and in only approximately 2 hours later it would be at the bottom of the ocean. A total of 1,502 people died either on the ship or in the frigid water. Obviously this ship was on its maiden voyage and as said earlier was filled with all new everything. Then in 1985, Robert Ballard found the Titanic near the Grand Banks of Newfoundland about 12,000 feet down. Since then a total of over 6,000 artifacts have been taken out of the ship. Some experts say the ship will be gone in a few years and implode on itself until it eventually breaks down. Others say the ship will gradually decompose until the bow eventually implodes on itself. In an article published by Canadian Chemical News, D. Roy Cullimore and Lori Johnston described the results of their study of the ship's condition. They concluded: "There appears, at this time, to be evidence not of a catastrophic structural failure about to occur in the near future, but rather of a gradual collapse that would follow a somewhat predictable pattern." Many believe this wreckage should

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