August
21
/ 2022
Norway’s Secrets of the Ice team have found a perfectly-preserved, ancient arrow in the Langfonne ice patch, which dates to the north European Iron Age period (500 BC-800 AD). Rapid melting and climate change are turning the Langfonne and Lendbreen ice patches, which are about 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) apart, into “treasure glaciers”. The latest ice patch arrow is exceptionally well preserved and will tell us more about life in this ancient northern pass used by Viking hunters and travelers from far away. The year 2011 was known as the “The Great Melt.” And when temperatures soared across Europe, an ancient pass was revealed on Norway’s Langfonne ice patch in the Jotunheim mountains. This is not the first time Ancient
