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Inventory (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2014
Inventory Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule of Inventory | Our inventory consisted of the following:
|  | March 31, 2014 |  |  | December 31, 2013 |
Artifacts |  | $ | 5,399,521 |  |  | $ | 5,406,183 |
Packaging |  |  | 87,179 |  |  |  | 85,133 |
Merchandise |  |  | 771,362 |  |  |  | 401,072 |
Merchandise reserve |  |  | (371,332 | ) |  |  | (371,332 | )
Total inventory |  | $ | 5,886,730 |  |  | $ | 5,521,056 |

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