To be honest, nothing is about the best you can get in a time capsule from the 19th-century United States. I was fearing it would be a Sioux skull or the flayed and stripped skin of a disobedient slave, or perhaps some kind of forgotten zoonotic disease. It was not a nice time

If anything was placed in the box when it was buried in 1828 in the base of a Thaddeus Kosciuszko monument, no part of it was recognizable when the lid was pried off during the unveiling Monday. Kosciuszko was a Polish-born military engineer who fought in the Revolutionary War and engineered fortifications at West Point in the late 18th century.

This sounds like peak trolling by very disappointed someone of polish descent, since the Kościuszko Insurrection could be easily viewed (especially in 1828 USA) as this vault, the only thing left from it is peasant fetish of large part of polish inteligentsia.