Archeologists of the world beat alarm: most precious historical monuments can vanish under the influence of climate changes. The salvation of Scythian entombments in Altai is now a matter of extraordinary importance for archeologists.
      
      Many of the entombments had been conserved in the permafrost for more than 2000 years. Bodies of Scythian chiefs had been mummified with frost, which preserved their clothes, weapons, decorations and everything else intact.
      
      The problem is that the climate in Altai is rapidly warming up; the glaciers are melting down, and, for the first time since their being sealed 3000 years ago, as archeologists say, they have started melting down and getting washed out.
      
      Thus, Jean Bourgeois, an archeologist at Ghent University warns that the rise of average temperature by 1 or 2 degrees will be enough to destroy everything that had been kept for centuries in the Altaian tumuli. He hopes to find an artificial way of bringing down the temperature around the entombments, for example, by painting the tumuli to prevent them from absorbing sunlight and stabilize the temperature inside of them.
      
      Source: wday.ru