Humanity and History Are Intertwined
Science contributes significantly to what we know about mankind’s ancient history. For several years, scientists have been manually digging into glaciers and ice sheets using sophisticated equipment to extract the cores. The ice offers a deeper understanding of the connection between history and humanity.
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These methods help them extract ice from a depth of more than two miles below the surface. Their mission is to understand what happened thousands of years ago. It’s possible that the constituents of that ice have been on the planet for 800,000 years. How incredible is that?