A long-forgotten time capsule at West Point recently discovered inside the base of a monument and believed to have been left by cadets in the late 1820s is expected to be pried open Monday.

West Point’s first known time capsule, discovered during recent renovations to the base of a campus monument honoring Thaddeus Kościuszko, may actually reveal a centuries-old secret about the ...

A long-forgotten time capsule at West Point recently discovered inside the base of a monument and believed to have been left by cadets in the late 1820s is expected to be pried open Monday.

WEST POINT − No one knows what's inside a lead box discovered this spring inside a monument dedicated to Revolutionary War patriot Thaddeus Kosciuszko, but that's about to change.

A coin from 1800 that was found inside a time capsule inside the Tadeusz “Thaddeus” Kosciuszko monument at West Point that U.S. Military Academy officials believe was buried in 1828.

West Point archeologist Paul Hudson displays coins found in the lead box believed to have been placed in the base of a monument by cadets almost two centuries ago, in West Point, New York.

WEST POINT, N.Y. — Excitement and anticipation dissolved into disappointment at West Point when a lead box believed to have been placed by cadets in the base of a monument almost two centuries ...

WEST POINT, N.Y. — The highly anticipated opening of a lead box believed to have been placed in the base of a West Point monument by cadets almost two centuries ago yielded little more than gray ...

While no evidence of the time capsule exists in the academy’s records, historians at the West Point Museum say the Kosciuszko monument has never been moved – so, presumably, the capsule had ...

WEST POINT, N.Y. — The highly anticipated opening of a lead box believed to have been placed in the base of a West Point monument by cadets almost two centuries ago yielded little more than gray ...

WEST POINT, N.Y. — The highly anticipated opening of a lead box believed to have been placed in the base of a West Point monument by cadets almost two centuries ago yielded little more than gray ...