Machu Picchu: Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas

该项目将提供一个关于马丘比丘伟大的印加考古遗址的5 000平方英尺展览的全国巡回展览，并将使全国公众有机会观看独一无二和很少展出的印加文物，同时还通过互动展览和展示了解考古学。 展览展示了如何通过科学了解过去，使人们有可能确定皇家印加庄园的目的，活动和日常生活的性质。 实验室研究是游客体验的核心，其中包括骨骼学、古病理学、天文学、稳定碳同位素分析、动物骨骼的动物群分析、金属的成分和结构分析以及秘鲁马丘比丘国家研究所的植物群和动物群的生态分析。 项目资金还将建立一个网站，包括虚拟展览之旅、马丘比丘自助游和供课堂使用的网络考古学课程。 更大的项目还包括一个题为“印加库斯科考古学”的国际学术研讨会。“展览将于2003年1月在耶鲁皮博迪博物馆开幕，六个月后，将前往洛杉矶、匹兹堡、丹佛、华盛顿和芝加哥，然后返回纽黑文，在皮博迪博物馆长期展出。 该项目的受众估计将超过2，000，000名游客、学童和网站用户。

This project will provide for a national tour of a 5,000 square-foot exhibit about the great Inca archaeological site of Machu Picchu, and will give a national public audience the opportunity to view one-of-a-kind and seldom exhibited Inca artifacts, while also learning about archaeological science through engaging interactive exhibits and displays. The exhibit demonstrates how understanding the past through science has made it possible to determine the purpose, activities and the nature of daily life on a royal Inca estate. Laboratory research is at the core of the visitor experience, which will include osteology, paleopathology, astronomy, stable carbon isotope analysis, faunal analysis of animal bones, compositional and structural analysis of metals and ecological analysis of the flora and fauna of the Machu Picchu National Researve in Peru. Project funding will also create a Website including a virtual exhibit tour, a self-guided tour of Machu Picchu and web-based archaeological science curriculum for classroom use. The larger project also includes an international scholarly symposium entitled "The Archaeology of Inca Cuzco." The exhibit will open at the Yale Peabody Museum in January, 2003, and after six months, will travel to Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Denver, Washington, DC and Chicago, before it returns to New Haven for long-term installation at the Peabody. The project will reach an audience estimated at well over 2,000,000 visitors, school children, and Website users.