The world's largest time capsule will be printed only after 6 thousand years
The "Crypt of Civilization" is the name of the largest time capsule in the history of mankind, which will be opened only after 6000 years - in 8113. It was created back in 1940 and is a fairly large repository that should tell future civilizations about how people lived in the 30s of the last century.
This “message” is stored in the basement of the Phoebe Hearst Hall at Oglethorpe University (USA, Georgia) behind a stainless steel door that was welded over 65 years ago. Work on the creation of the crypt began in 1937. It is designed like the tombs of the pharaohs, but the scientists made sure that the room was waterproof. To do this, they converted the former pool - the walls of the room were finished with porcelain enamel plates and filled with a special moisture-resistant resin, and the floor with concrete.
The idea for an ambitious project was born in the head of Dr. Thornwell Jacobs - President of Oglethorpe University in 1936. Then he studied and taught history and was amazed at how little the modern generation knows about ancient civilizations. Therefore, the scientist decided to make the task easier for those who will study our civilization in the future and decided to create a time capsule, calling it the "Crypt of Civilization".
So Thornwell Jacobs and his assistants began to collect in the repository comprehensive information about modern civilization, as well as the accumulated knowledge of mankind - he cooperated with the information on a new medium for that time, known as "microfilm", which is documents captured on a special photographic film.
In addition to textual sources, films with motion pictures and audio recordings with music that were popular in the 30s, 100 books, as well as photographs of different periods of time, starting from 1898, were put into the capsule. Various artifacts, reflecting, according to the scientist, the culture of those years, also got there. For example, a figurine of Donald Duck, the hero of cartoons famous at that time, a printing and sewing machine, children's toys, and so on. The authors of the project selected the exhibits at their own discretion, so they did not always accurately reflect America in the 1930s. To better preserve the items, they were placed in vacuum glass flasks.
The crypt was sealed in 1940, or rather, the stainless steel door was solemnly welded. And the capsule should be opened in 8113 AD. The author of the idea explained this by the fact that 6177 years have passed since the creation of the Egyptian calendar (in 1936). As conceived by Thornwell Jacobs, our civilization should be in the middle between the ancient Egyptians and people from the future, who will break the seal on the time capsule at the appointed time.
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