Speaking of the Italian front and battlefield archeology has this been posted?

[DonL 0]

http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/01/13612930-melting-glacier-reveals-world-war-i-ammunition?lite

[NS13Jarhead 6]

See, global warming DOES have its uses.

[Olham 164]

Interesting find, DonL!

They have also found remains of trees in such high regions of (now molten) glaciers,

that it becomes more understandable, how Hannibal could have crossed the Alpes

with elephants in his army. There have been such warmer periods before, it seems.