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Melting glaciers reveal Viking pass hidden for centuries

With global warming, glaciers and ice patches high in Norway's mountains are melting, and in their wake revealing a secret history that's been hidden for millennia.

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Melting glaciers reveal Viking pass hidden for centuries

With global warming, glaciers and ice patches high in Norway's mountains are melting, and in their wake revealing a secret history that's been hidden for millennia.

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6,000 years of arrows emerge from melting Norwegian ice patch

6,000 years of arrows emerge from melting Norwegian ice patch

The record-setting discovery of 68 projectiles from the Neolithic to the Viking Era also upends ideas on how ice both preserves and destroys archaeological finds.
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Climate change and melted ice reveal lost Viking mountain pass
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Climate change and melted ice reveal lost Viking mountain pass

Since 2011, a mountain pass in central Norway has seen unusually warm summers linked to climate change. The melt has revealed an unexpected treasure trove of more than 1,000 remarkably preserved artifacts.

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