Holy time travel!

A time capsule buried in 1795 by Paul Revere and Samuel Adams, was unearthed on Thursday, in Boston at the Massachusetts Statehouse. This is said to be possibly the oldest such U.S. artifact ever uncovered.

About the size of a cigar box, the copper container — green from oxidation and caked in plaster — was found in the cornerstone of the “new” statehouse on Beacon Hill, which was completed in 1798.

As Boston Museum of Fine Arts Conservator Pam Hatchfield chiseled away for hours to free the box, “five silver cons spilled from the stone block — measures of good luck tossed in when the capsule was entombed by the revolutionary heroes 219 years ago, officials told the Boston Globe”.

But what is inside the cigar-box sized capsule? Well, nothing…yet.

The world will have to wait a little longer to learn what’s inside. The museum will X-ray the box over the weekend and reveal its contents next week.

This is a pretty cool discovery for the world – we don’t know much about time capsules, but it seems we’re on the right track!

For more see USA Today