A storm swallowed 20 metres of an Alaskan Yup'ik heritage site. Archaeologists raced to save what remained.
Emergency excavations ran for three weeks in May and June 2026 at Nunalleq, on Alaska's Bering Sea coast, after a typhoon remnant tore away around 20 metres of coastal tundra the previous October. The site has now lost ground that archaeologists excavated as recently as 2009.
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