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Inventory (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2013
Inventory Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule of Inventory | Our inventory consisted of the following:
|  | September 30, 2013 |  |  | December 31, 2012 |
Artifacts |  | $ | 5,446,668 |  |  | $ | 5,743,915 |
Packaging |  |  | 87,000 |  |  |  | 131,641 |
Merchandise |  |  | 397,315 |  |  |  | 485,769 |
Merchandise reserve |  |  | (371,332 | ) |  |  | (367,558 | )
Total inventory |  | $ | 5,559,651 |  |  | $ | 5,993,767 |

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