United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798Hudson, Paul Stephen2003-04-01Encyclopedia article about the Crypt of Civilization. The Crypt of Civilization, a multimillennial time capsule, is a chamber that was sealed behind a stainless steel door in 1940 at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta. The crypt is the "first successful attempt to bury a record of this culture for any future inhabitants or visitors to the planet Earth," according to the Guinness Book of World Records (1990).text/htmlengForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.Time capsules--Georgia--AtlantaCrypts--Georgia--AtlantaUnited States--CivilizationCivilizationJacobs, Thornwell, 1877-1956Peters, Thomas Kimmwood, 1879-1973Oglethorpe University (Atlanta, Ga.)--HistoryCrypt of civilizationText