For students who have grown up with online shopping, cell phones, and life on demand, the items inside felt like artifacts.

Not every time capsule boasts paper mâché body parts or decades-old tTwinkies, but they’re all fascinating in their own ways. We’re uncovering some of history’s best and most baffling examples—found ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This story is another installment of "UB Then," an occasional feature highlighting people, events and other interesting elements of UB history pulled from the University Archives. An ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It’s been dormant for 25 years, a time capsule at Sandia National Laboratories and we’ll soon get a look at what’s inside the scientific twist on a long-time tradition. Like ...

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 ...

“You see the thoughts, the hopes and the faith of people from a community over 100 years ago. What they hoped for is still continuing to happen in the heart of Salt Lake City,” the Rev. Andrew ...