Word: papyri
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...richest man in the world. The bulk of his estate went to the Getty Museum in Malibu, an institution that tax-sheltered much of its founder's collection and finally shielded his remains. Getty was buried near the museum, a stagy imitation of the Emperor Hadrian's Villa dei Papyri, though not before his lawyers found a way around a California law that prohibits graves on private land...