Not all time capsules live up to expectations. For Smithtown, Long Island’s 350th birthday in 2015, officials clad in ...

People have long buried valuable objects to protect them from invading tribes or sometimes as part of sacred religious rituals. Occasionally, archaeologists, metal detectorists, and even farmers ...

Contents of the 1914 time capsule revealed at the New-York Historical Society (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) The two oldest known and unopened time capsules were unsealed last week, one ...

What did soldiers in the 1820s care about enough to preserve for future generations? That might get answered soon. Historians at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York plan on opening a ...

Poway High School’s class T-shirts, food containers and ear buds were just a few of the 50 or so items sealed in a time capsule that will be opened by students in 2050. The time capsule, a first for ...

A small town in Nebraska just welcomed a blast from the past by opening a time capsule sealed more than 50 years ago. Seward, Nebraska, located 25 miles west of Lincoln with a population of under ...

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU DENNIS. RIGHT NOW WE ARE GETTING A LOOK AT EVERYTHING INSIDE A 100 YEAR OLD TIME CAPSULE IN KANSAS CITY. IT IS IMPRESSIVE. IT WAS BURIED IN THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR ONE MUSEUM AND ...

Crews wrapping up the removal Monday of a giant pedestal that once held a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond found what appeared to be a second and long-sought-after time capsule, ...

PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WJAR) — The city of Pawtucket's demolition of McCoy Stadium is resulting in the discovery of a few historic items. A city spokesperson announced the discovery of a second time capsule ...

Within the same week in 1873, a little village north of Charlotte called Craighead incorporated and renamed itself Huntersville. The village of Moore did the same, renaming itself Mooresville. Learn ...