10 Mysterious Discoveries Found Frozen In Ice!

10 Mysterious Discoveries Found Frozen In Ice!

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10 Mysterious Discoveries Found Frozen In Ice!
Because of ice’s amazing preservative properties, many relics of our planet’s past can be found frozen
within the glaciers and ice sheets. Many of these have seen the light of day due to global warming, some
easily identifiable, while others downright mysterious.
From a pack animal from the iron age to the most unusual mummies you’ll ever see, here are 10
mysterious discoveries found frozen in ice.

Number 10. An Iron Age Horse
In 2013, the remains of a horse dating back to the Iron Age was found 2000 meters up the mountains of
Norway. This is only one of a series of discoveries made by scientists at the time, as global warming
melts glaciers and ice sheets, revealing perfectly preserved relics of the past. This is the first time that
such an animal was found in that high altitude, giving rise to a lot of questions, primarily, what is it doing
there.
The find can give archaeologists a unique insight into how the iron age people of the region lived. In fact,
some had already theorized that people from the iron age regularly hunted reindeer up in the
mountains, and they used horses to transport their catch back to their villages.
This was due to the fact that reindeer usually are pestered by horseflies during the summer, and move
to a higher, and colder altitude to escape them. That makes the icy regions up the Norwegian mountains
prime hunting real estate.

Number 9. World War I Soldiers
The small village of Peio in today’s Italy was once the site of a bloody battle now known as the White
War. Situated at an altitude of 6500 feet, this was the highest settlement of the Austro-Hungarian
Empire, but despite the inhospitable conditions, it was still dragged into the conflict in 1915.
The fierce conflict high in the mountains went largely unnoticed by the rest of the world at the time but
today, as the region's ice melts, archaeologists and historians are learning more about the amazing feats
of bravery of those involved.
Many artifacts have been revealed by the melting ice; helmets and guns, even an unmailed love letter
from one of the soldiers to a girl named Maria. Of course, ice mummies of the soldiers were found as
well.
In 2012, the mummified bodies of two blond and blue-eyed Austrian soldiers, aged just 17 and 18 years
old, were uncovered from the ice—both had been shot through the head and buried in a crevasse on
the Presena glacier by their comrades. Locals held a funeral for the pair in 2013, and 200 people from
around Peio attended.

Number 8. New Islands

Many new and mysterious things have been revealed by the melting of the world’s permafrost. While all
of these discoveries can be considered massive, here’s something that literally is.
Scientists studying the Steenstrup and Kier Glaciers in northwest Greenland have observed the
emergence of several brand new islands from the ice between 1999 and 2014. The Streenstrup Glacier
has been steadily receding for the past six and a half decades, allowing the previously ice covered islands
to see the light of day. Due to this, maps were needed to be redrawn.
Glaciers actually retreat in advance in a cyclical fashion, but according to many glacier researchers, the
recent pace and extent of the retreat has suggested an acceleration due to global warming. If the ice
continues to recede, more landmasses that have lain hidden in the ice for thousands of years could be
exposed.

Number 7. A Giant Virus
From something that’s big, we now move on to something absolutely tiny. Tiny but when compared to
its contemporaries, it’s absolutely massive. Not only that, it’s also over 30,000 years old, and it’s still
alive.
An absolutely massive virus was discovered deep in the Siberian permafrost back in 2015, and its
discovery reveals that huge ancient viruses are much more diverse than scientists had ever known.
Now, before you start panicking that a new ancient superbug has been unleashed and it’s the end of the
world as we know it, just know that although the giant virus is still perfectly capable of infecting a host,
they pose no danger to humans. They only infect singled-celled amoebas during the late Stone Age.
This giant virus, since named Mollivirus sibericum, is a member of a new viral family, the fourth such
family ever found. Until about a decade ago, viruses were thought of as universally tiny,