Crypt of Civilization
The Crypt of Civilization is an impenetrable, airtight, room-sized time capsule, built between 1937 and 1940, at Oglethorpe University in Brookhaven, Georgia.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Memorial
- Description: time capsule in Georgia, United States
- Also known as: “Crypt of Civilization time capsule”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dekalb-Peachtree Airport and Brookhaven/Oglethorpe station.
Dekalb-Peachtree Airport
Aerodrome
DeKalb–Peachtree Airport, also known as Peachtree–DeKalb Airport, is a county-owned, public-use airport in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The airport is located in the city of Chamblee, just northeast of Atlanta. Dekalb-Peachtree Airport is situated 1½ miles east of Crypt of Civilization.
Brookhaven/Oglethorpe station
Metro station
Photo: Biomedeng, Public domain.
Brookhaven/Oglethorpe is a subway station in Brookhaven, Georgia, on the Gold Line of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority rail system. An elevated station, it is located one mile south of Oglethorpe University. Brookhaven/Oglethorpe station is situated 1 mile southwest of Crypt of Civilization.
Phipps Plaza
Shopping center
Photo: Isawooty, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Phipps Plaza is a shopping mall in the Buckhead district of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is adjacent to Lenox Square, both of which are owned by Simon Property Group. Phipps Plaza is situated 2½ miles southwest of Crypt of Civilization.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brookhaven and Chamblee.
Brookhaven
Town
Photo: Mmann1988, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Brookhaven, formerly North Atlanta, is a city in the northeastern suburbs of Atlanta that is located in western DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, directly northeast of Atlanta.
Chamblee
Photo: Biomedeng, Public domain.
Chamblee is a city in northern DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, northeast of Atlanta. The population was 30,164 as of the 2020 census.
Doraville
Photo: Thomson200, CC0.
Doraville is in Metro Atlanta. It was once the location of the Doraville GM plant, which closed in 2005 and now a mixed-use shopping district is proposed to be built at that location.
Crypt of Civilization
- Categories: time capsule, fixed construction, and historic site
- Location: City of Brookhaven, DeKalb County, Georgia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.8747° or 33° 52′ 29″ northLongitude
-84.33141° or 84° 19′ 53″ westOpen location code
865QVMF9+VCOpenStreetMap ID
node 5872306923OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialWikidata ID
Q326920
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Spanish—“Crypt of Civilization” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Քաղաքակրթության խուց”
- Azerbaijani: “Sivilizasiya sərdabəsi”
- Chinese: “文明地穴”
- Chinese: “文明的地窖”
- Chinese: “文明窖藏”
- Dutch: “Crypt of Civilization”
- Finnish: “Crypt of Civilization”
- French: “Crypt of Civilization”
- German: “Crypt of Civilization”
- German: “Krypta der Zivilisation”
- German: “The Crypt of Civilization”
- Hungarian: “A civilizáció kriptája”
- Japanese: “文明の地下聖堂”
- Portuguese: “Cripta da Civilização”
- Russian: “Крипта цивилизации”
- Spanish: “Cripta de la Civilizacion”
- Spanish: “Cripta de la Civilización”
Notable Places Nearby
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