The capsule was buried under the Golden Dome of the Massachusetts State House in 1795 by then-Governor Samuel Adams and Paul Revere.

See the contents inside Massachusetts State House time capsule from the era of Paul Revere. The capsule was cracked open at the MFA on Tuesday night.

A Massachusetts time capsule dating back to 1795 was returned Wednesday to the cornerstone of the statehouse with a set of 2015 U.S. mint coins and a silver plague added to its contents for a ...

A more than 200-year-old time capsule was extracted from the Massachusetts State House Thursday afternoon.

The contents extracted from the Massachusetts State House time capsule will be on view at the Museum of Fine Arts from March 11 through April 22.

Coins and the silver engraving found inside the time capsule. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) The capsule was embedded in a cornerstone of the Massachusetts State House when construction began in 1795.

The box was a time capsule, many of its items first placed beneath the cornerstone of the Massachusetts State House 220 years ago to mark the start of the building’s construction.

BOSTON — The X-rays of a time capsule unearthed from a cornerstone of the Massachusetts State House found what appeared to be coins, newspapers, a copper medal depicting George Washington and ...

A time capsule was recovered there three months ago. Like the Massachusetts State House, the Old State House’s walls have cradled crucial moments of early American history.

Coins, newspapers and the seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts were among the items tucked away in one of the nation’s oldest time capsules opened last night at the Museum of Fine Arts.T… ...

Originally made of cowhide, the time capsule was believed to have been embedded in the cornerstone when construction on the state Capitol began in 1795. Adams was governor of Massachusetts at the ...

Massachusetts officials removed a time capsule that was initially placed more than two centuries ago in the cornerstone of the Statehouse.