This Week in Time Capsules: Mice, Cameras and Presidential Portraits

This Week in Time Capsules: Mice, Cameras and Presidential Portraits

This week in our time capsule news round-up we have the "other items" from that Steve Jobs capsule, some century-old photos in Oklahoma City, and a signed portrait of FDR that’s been sitting under Oregon soil since 1941.

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California Couple Finds Time Capsules Worth $10 Million

California Couple Finds Time Capsules Worth $10 Million

A couple in Northern California recently uncovered a time capsule hunter’s dream: six metal canisters filled with rare coins, valued at about $10 million.

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This Week in Time Capsules: Launching a Sports Drink To The Moon

This Week in Time Capsules: Launching a Sports Drink To The Moon

This week in our time capsule news round-up we have a mystery capsule in Michigan that will finally get a public unveiling, some confused time capsule hunters in Australia who really have their work cut out for them, and a Pittsburgh company that wants to put a time capsule on the moon—complete with a Japanese sports drink.

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This Week in Time Capsules: Disappointed Students Boo Boring Capsule

This Week in Time Capsules: Disappointed Students Boo Boring Capsule

Time capsuling is hard. Everybody wants to find that ancient capsule with the dozens of gold bricks or the mummy or whatever. But more often than not, they’re quite boring. Your average 20th century capsule generally has just a handful of old pennies and an American flag. But we keep searching. Because sometimes, we find that super-duper, amazing capsule that makes it all worthwhile.

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First Video of the Steve Jobs Time Capsule Being Unearthed

First Video of the Steve Jobs Time Capsule Being Unearthed

This past September one of the most sought after "lost" time capsules of the 20th century was finally found. After years of various people searching for the thing, the so-called Steve Jobs capsule was finally unearthed in Aspen by a team of excavators from the National Geographic Channel show Diggers. And now we have video of the discovery.

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This Week in Time Capsules: Tweets and Teetotalers

This Week in Time Capsules: Tweets and Teetotalers

This week in our time capsule round-up we have a surprise capsule in Ohio filled with who-knows-what, a social media-based capsule compiled Down Under, and a church capsule in Berkeley warning that the path to Hell is paved with social drinkers.

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This Week in Time Capsules: The 100-Year Akron Mayor Capsule Hoax

This Week in Time Capsules: The 100-Year Akron Mayor Capsule Hoax

This week in our time capsule news round-up we have a Navy capsule with some awesome tech history, some disappointed uncapsulers in Tacoma, and a time capsule hoax 100 years in the making.

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This Week in Time Capsules: Stars, Surgery, and Secrets

This Week in Time Capsules: Stars, Surgery, and Secrets

This week’s time capsule news round-up has some future artifacts at a hospital in Ohio, kids in Minnesota who are sure to make you feel ancient, and a wooden box in Australia with "a secret inside."

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The Most Exciting Time Capsules Being Opened This Year

The Most Exciting Time Capsules Being Opened This Year

Time capsuling is hard. Most capsules from the 20th century are lost, damaged, or simply forgotten. But with any luck, these eleven time capsules — all intended to be opened in the year 2014 — will find their way safely above ground sometime this year.

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The Top 10 Time Capsules of 2013

The Top 10 Time Capsules of 2013

It was an exciting year for time capsules! Am I allowed to say without getting my lunch money stolen and then violently stuffed into a locker?

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