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Last updated on Friday, April 4, 2014
(WALDRON) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation is back on the scene Thursday at a Rush County farm combing through thousands of antiquities.
Some 100 agents alongside archaeologists and anthropologists are trying to figure out what everything is and if a crime occurred.
The kind of collection you'd see at a museum is how archaeologists have described what investigators have found here in this rural community of Waldron - artifacts and relics spanning the globe.
It's a collection that brought a swarm of FBI agents and police to the home of 91-year-old Donald Miller, much to the surprise of his neighbors.
Investigators say it's one he's been working on most of his life, and he may or may not have acquired them properly. Miller is cooperating with the investigation which could take weeks.
"He has been very cooperative at this point. And I think the goal here again is to identify those items, see if they belong elsewhere and we're going to work very closely with him to make that happen," said Special Agent Paul Bresson, FBI.
Over the next few weeks, experts will categorize each item and try to determine where it came from and where it belongs. They say they will do all they can to maintain the integrity of those items.
While they couldn't put a dollar figure on the collection, they say the cultural value is 'immeasureable'.
It's unclear whether or not Miller will face any charges.
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