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Melting Swiss Glaciers Release Archaeological Treasures
Archaeologists are scouring mountain passes as artifacts from a bygone world all but tumble out of Switzerland’s shrinking ice.
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The New York TimesClimate
Melting Ice Reveals Artifacts in the Swiss Alps
Switzerland has lost almost 20 percent of its ice within just five years. One surprising consequence of this melting is that ancient artifacts once frozen in the glaciers are now revealing themselves. Our climate reporter Raymond Zhong takes us on a search for ancient objects.
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‘If it’s too slick, it looks like a fashion mag’: Peter Zumthor on his £110m rammed concrete gallery
It is one of the world’s finest collections, full of Monets, Miros and Picassos. But is the great Swiss architect’s extension for the Beyeler Foundation a worthy addition? Or is it a bit luxury boutique? In the early 1960s, when Peter Zumthor was a teenage apprentice in his father’s cabinet-making workshop, he…
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