Alum’s book tackles Peru expedition By Nora Caplan-Bricker Staff Reporter Friday, April 16, 2010 Released today, Christopher Heaney’s ’03 book “Cradle of Gold” tells the story of Yale explorer Hiram Bingham’s expeditions in Peru at the turn of the 20th century. Bingham discovered the ruins of Machu Picchu, the last Incan city, and brought home artifacts that still reside in the Peabody Museum, and lie at the heart of a century-old dispute between Peru and Yale. In an interview with the News, Heaney said the research for his book, which he began as an undergraduate, has made him think deeply about his alma mater and about the role of academic inquiry in history. Q. How did you become interested in this story? A. I was a senior at Yale in the fall of 2002. I was a Latin American studies major, and for one of my history seminars I wrote about Hiram Bingham’s career in politics. It got me familiar with the Bingham family papers in Manuscripts and Archives. That spring, I began working on m...
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