Hikers and mountaineers are stumbling on mysterious ancient objects in the Swiss Alps, and their discoveries are keeping archaeologists busy.
From the Iron Age to the Ancient Romans to the Middle Ages, people traveled across the Alps’s icy mountain passes with cows, mules, oil, wine, skis, weapons, and more.
Their lost or abandoned belongings are now surfacing as the mountains’ glaciers melt, revealing clues about past civilizations and eras.
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Archaeologists gave Business Insider an inside look at some of their most mysterious and most revealing discoveries.
