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Climate change is having a devastating impact on our planet, destroying natural landscapes with
floods, droughts and other forms of extreme weather. But sometimes, among the devastation,
these climatic phenomena can reveal artifacts and archaeological sites previously lost to time.
From little-known cities in the desert to ancient objects frozen in ice.

Shoe from the Iron Age, Norway. Climate change is causing

glaciers to melt at an alarming rate, but melting ice can
sometimes thaw centuries-old objects that were previously
lost in permafrost. In 2019, a hiker on Norway's Lendbreen
Glacier discovered a tangled mass of rawhide and lace
protruding from the ice.

Otzi the Iceman, Italy. It was discovered in September 1991 in

the Tisenjoch Pass, in the Italian province of South Tyrol, near
the border with Austria. After a particularly hot summer, two
German hikers saw the body scattered across the ice and
believed they had found the victim of a mountaineering
accident. However, investigations soon revealed that the man
had actually died in the year 3300 BC.

lena horse. In 2018, a perfectly intact 42,000-year-old foal,

a long-extinct species known as Lena's horse, just one or two
weeks old, was found buried in the ice of Siberia's Batagaika
Crater with urine in its bladder. and liquid blood in the veins.