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Also known as the Indus Valley Civilization—covered about 300,000 square miles. Had some kind of writing which has not been deciphered. Language unknown but maybe related to the later Dravidian languages—certainly not Indo-European.

Here's how our decendants will be able to read and speak! American English:

5,000 year project

Note: the pyramid on page one is only as tall as a man, but there are hundreds to thousands scattered across America. A 5,000 year great-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-grandson need only find one to kick start a early-to-mid 1900s level of civilization.

Each pyramid has the microtext equivalent of about 30,000 print books and enclosed microscopes so that the text is in a human readable form of everything from smelting metals, to the horse collar and plow, to soap and sanitation, to art and culture, to the scientific method, to having a representative democracy and more!

It would be like Colonial America getting a time capsule from Atlantis!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Interesting concept.

Hope it is never needed.

[SunkenCiv]

Interesting, a good idea for a time capsule, probably very good idea if duplicates are stashed in a lot of different places.

[Red Badger]

No curry recipes?......................

[Verginius Rufus]

The colonial Americans wouldn't have been able to read what they found in the time capsule from Atlantis.

Plato indicates that the language of Atlantis was not Greek (Critias 114b), but doesn't appear to say what that language was.