West Point Time Capsule
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A nearly 200-year-old West Point time capsule that appeared to yield little more than dust when it was opened during a disappointing livestream contained hidden treasure after all, the U.S. Military Academy said Wednesday.
It was just more hidden than expected.
The lead box believed to have been placed by cadets in the base of a monument actually contained six silver American coins dating from 1795 to 1828 and a commemorative medal, West Point said in a news release. All were discovered in the sediment of the box, which at Monday’s ceremonial opening at the New York academy appeared to be its only contents
https://apnews.com/article/west-point-time-capsule-kosciuszko-aaebeabf8fbb697a56eb096a72e295ab
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This will come off as a @Horace type of reply, but I've always been interested in the (hubris?) or confidence of modern day people opening historical sites, whether it's King Tut's tomb or a time capsule. What makes use worthy of revealing what was specifically entombed or buried hundreds or thousands of years ago?
I guess one could argue in the last 200-300 years we have modernized our information and travel enough to be able to go-anywhere and share-anything whereas I don't think folks in the 14th century were concerned about tombs as much as they were about getting potatoes and not getting the black death.
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This will come off as a @Horace type of reply, but I've always been interested in the (hubris?) or confidence of modern day people opening historical sites, whether it's King Tut's tomb or a time capsule. What makes use worthy of revealing what was specifically entombed or buried hundreds or thousands of years ago?
I guess one could argue in the last 200-300 years we have modernized our information and travel enough to be able to go-anywhere and share-anything whereas I don't think folks in the 14th century were concerned about tombs as much as they were about getting potatoes and not getting the black death.
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I figured my reply was riddled with typos.
Kidding, although sometimes sarcastic, I find some of your replies thought provoking by focusing on the context of situations instead of just the who/what/when.
@89th said in West Point Time Capsule:
I figured my reply was riddled with typos.
Kidding, although sometimes sarcastic, I find some of your replies thought provoking by focusing on the context of situations instead of just the who/what/when.
Thanks 89th. All in a day’s work. You know, for a public intellectual.
