Crypt of civilization (jan 1, 1937 – jan 1, 8113)

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made by Oglethorpe University (Brookhaven, Georgia) in 1937, an attempt to preserve all of human knowledge. The university’s president, Thronwell Jacobs, believed it might serve archeologists well in the future. A big chamber was converted into a museum filled with 640,000 pages of microfilmed books, an early television, a beer container and a set of Lincoln Logs. The vault even features a special “language integrator” to help teach English to whoever might find it. Jacobs wanted it to stay there for 6,177 years, the same time thought to have passed from the beginning of recorded history. It’s still waiting for 8113.

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