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The origins of a mysterious package that landed at the doorstep of the University of Chicago for Indiana Jones has been solved.

Via the Los Angeles Times:

“In the end, it wasn’t a prank or a promotional stunt … it was a simple accident. The package, which contained an apparently handmade re-creation of Abner Ravenwood’s diary, originated with a man named Paul, an Indiana Jones prop replicator in Guam, according to the university’s admissions office Tumblr page.

Paul had recently sold the item on Ebay for $200 to a buyer in Italy, but while the package was in transit, the manila envelope containing the diary slipped out. Believing the faux Egyptian postage affixed to the outside of the envelope to be real, the United States Postal Service shipped the package to Henry Walton Jones Jr. at the University of Chicago.

… The package and its contents will now be displayed at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago — Paul has said he’ll make a new diary for the original buyer in Italy.

Indiana Jones would be proud. As many Hero Complex readers (and comments on the university’s Tumblr page) have pointed out, “It belongs in a museum!”

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