16+ Unexpected Discoveries That Came To Us From A Bygone Age

As someone who lives in a 130-year-old house, I'd love to see what kind of ancient wallpaper patterns are lurking beneath the modern paint.

This 300-year-old library tool allows researchers to keep a few books open at once. It's kind of the old-school equivalent of having multiple monitors.

This seldom-used bathroom shows just how rarely it's used with this glimpse into its medicine cabinet. All that stuff must be half a century old.

These papier-mâché candy buckets from the 1940s show that Halloween used to have a different aesthetic, even if it was still all about accumulating candy.

This little drawing was found inside a 17th century bible. No matter how much things change, humans will always love doodling in the margins.

A home reno revealed this 1953 newspaper under the floorboards. It's pretty wild that, nearly seven decades later, Elizabeth II is still the reigning monarch.

This is a collection of uranium glass from back in the day. Uranium glass is exactly what it sounds like: glass infused with just a bit of glowing radioactive goodness.

This package has a bunch of vintage Sesame Street puffy stickers on the outside. I'd estimate these as being from the 1980s.

This handy little palm-sized gadget looks like it would have been pretty helpful for remembering shopping lists in the days before smart devices.

This collection of framed Valentines was collected and put together by a second grader in 1924 or thereabouts.

This yogurt container from 1976 has been floating around in the ocean for more than four decades. It hasn't degraded one bit.

Here's a bottle of Pepsi dating back to Soviet Russia. It's a nice collector piece, but I sure wouldn't want to drink it.

This time capsule is more than a hundred years old. It doesn't look particularly exciting, but at least it finally got dug up.

This old chemistry book from 1897 presents the known elements as a list, because the standard table didn't exist just yet.

"My mother found a 4th birthday card she forgot to pass on to me... I’m 26 now," wrote somebody who just made five dollars.

This old German house has a consistent size from side to side, but if you look close, it's apparent that each side has a different number of floors.

I love this random little Easter egg. Seriously, what was wrong with the awesome 1995 bathroom reno this couple did?

This 600-year-old stained glass at a fortress in India looks quite different from the stained glass commonly found in the west.

This garage, dating back to 1927, has a big pit in the floor. Yeah, I wouldn't want to investigate that either.

There's nothing that screams "90s!" more than Nickelodeon's slime. Here's a perfect freeze frame of one of those iconic slimings.