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Oriental Institute

TIME : 2016/2/18 11:42:48

The University of Chicago's famed archaeologists – Indiana Jones supposedly was based on one – cram their headquarters with antiquities they've unearthed from Egypt, Nubia, Persia and Mesopotamia. King Tut is the star, standing 17 feet tall, weighing six tons and lording over more mummies, clay tablets and canopic jars than you can shake a papyrus scroll at.

There's no pressure at all for the suggested donation, so if you don't have it, don't fret.