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.

A close-up view of the 1800 Liberty dollar that West Point archaeologist Paul Hudson recovered from the seemingly empty time capsule after the August 28 unboxing event (all images courtesy United ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

A small piñata. A coin from Argentina. Film negatives of Santa Ana street life. These are just some of the items packed with intention into a time capsule that has waited in the rafters of the Grand ...

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 ...

Before April 8, the last total solar eclipse to pass over Gary was in 1806. The next will be on Sept. 14, 2099, and Indiana University Northwest officials wanted the future generation to understand ...