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 ...

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, ...

In the late 1990s, many people thought civilization was going to end on Jan. 1, 2000. Students and staff at W.J. Quarles Elementary in Long Beach clearly didn’t think so. In 1999, students in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The pungent smell of murky water drifted throughout Burncoat High School’s cafeteria Wednesday morning. The odor emanated from a concrete box that retired history teacher Jack Chiras had just opened.

The University YMCA installed two time capsules on Thursday that are set to be reopened in 2073 during its 200th anniversary. They announced the plan in a press release in March 2024. The two main ...

A time capsule buried 25 years ago was opened in Framingham as part of the city's 325th anniversary celebrations. The capsule contained items like a town history book, police trading cards and grocery ...

FARGO — Fifty years ago, Fargoans celebrated the city’s centennial with 10 days of festivities, one of which included depositing items into a time capsule that has been sealed for the past five ...