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Mongolia’s Melting Ice Reveals Fragile Prehistoric Artifacts
- userbinator 5y agoDoesn't this suggest that there used to be much less ice when the discovered artifacts were still new?
- cwbrandsma 5y agoMore likely that things were dropped into the snow, then covered, and remained coved in snow for a long time.
- adventured 5y agoPerhaps the claim would be that the objects have been gradually sinking toward the surface with the melt. Also, while they say vaguely that it's the least snow in memory (under a photo caption: "Domestic reindeer cool themselves on a formerly permanent ice patch (left) that melted away completely during the summer of 2018 for the first time in local memory."), that doesn't mean much. So called local memory isn't a very accurate recording. Maybe there were some other great melts across a thousand years.
- noselasd 5y agoCertainly could be, e.g. after the last ice age in northern europe, there was a couple thousand years where the climate there was much warmer, and large forrests covered the high mountains of what today is way above the current treeline
- HenryKissinger 5y agoI just hope we find the tomb of Genghis Khan before the body is too decomposed to be conclusively identified.
- edgyquant 5y agoI don’t understand the appeal. Genghis Khan was a fascinating individual but we don’t really need his tomb to answer any historical question I can think of (though I’m glad to be wrong.)
- selimthegrim 5y agoThe manner of his death is still unclear (the Tangut queen killing him is conjecture)
- gremloni 5y agoIsn’t it enough that he is fascinating? Would finding the frozen body of Jesus Christ not be exciting?
- hutzlibu 5y agoThat would be an interesting one, as most(?) christians believe, there is none, as he ascended into heaven, so they would not believe it to be the right body, but honestly, how on earth could you prove it? (from historical evidence, it is not even clear, of whether he existed at all)
- gremloni 5y agoIt’s an exaggerated example to prove my point. It doesn’t really hold up to any kind of analysis.
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> but honestly, how on earth could you prove it? Divine revelation, obviously.
- willvarfar 5y agoIt would be very informative to discover the true extent of the burial goods and hints at the ceremony involved. There's a lot of lore and speculation and it can't all be right.