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 ...

Time capsules are fickle, and the opening of one entombed a century ago inside one of the nation's preeminent World War I memorials was no exception. The first challenge was just getting to the time ...

When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth. Contained within are hints about the very beginning of the solar system and how ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Recently, while a construction crew was demolishing an old high school in Minnesota, they — with the help of a school employee — found a time capsule from the Roaring '20s.On Monday — over a century ...