An Iron-Age T-Shirt
I’m sure you’ve found some weird personal objects on your hiking trail at some point, perhaps things that simply look like they fell out of a backpack: a shoe, a sock, a hat, etc.? Well, thanks to melting glaciers, archaeologists are finding iron-age pieces of clothing- around 2,000 items, to be exact! Most of the artifacts have been things like arrowheads and horseshoes, but scientists have also found mittens, and in 2011 researchers from the University of Oslo and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology found a shirt they dated to between A.D. 230 and A.D. 390. Wow!
An Iron-Age T-Shirt
32,000 Year Old Seeds
If you’re someone who can’t seem to keep their houseplants alive, you’ll be dumbfounded to hear that scientists managed to grow plants that derived from 32,000-year-old seeds that were discovered from melted ice that was first hidden by an ice age squirrel! A team of Russian researchers first discovered said seeds along the Kolyma River buried 124 feet deep in the permafrost. It’s pretty impressive that the researchers were still able to grow live plants from these seeds!
32,000 Year Old Seeds
