Box Believed to Be Time Capsule Unearthed
Workers excavating a site in Dublin, the Irish capital, have dug up a stone and metal box that archeologists believe is a “time capsule” buried 200 years ago.
The sealed box was found at a site where a monument to English naval hero Horatio Nelson once stood.
Pat Wallace, director of Ireland’s national museum, said the box--measuring about 2 1/2 feet by 1 1/2 feet--probably holds items from the era, such as coins and newspapers.
Archeologists were cleaning the box to read an inscription on it, and they planned to X-ray it before trying to open it, Wallace said.
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