In the summer of 1988, a car plowed into the Appomattox Statue at the intersection of Duke Street and Washington Street in Alexandria, unearthing a time capsule, which was picked up by a bystander.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

For 30 years, a potentially priceless piece of technology history was lost somewhere beneath Aspen, Colo. At the Aspen International Design Conference in 1983, Steve Jobs gave a talk prognosticating ...

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 ...

The deadline to submit letters to a community time capsule is less than a month away, and the city is asking community ...