Finally tonight, a journey to remote Alaska, where global warming is being blamed for endangering a treasure trove of indigenous artifacts.

Nellifur Huayat, with the non-profit news organization Evident Media, visited one dig site near Alaska's Bering Sea where archaeologists say they're in a race against time.

Okay. where archaeologists say they're in a race against time.

Can you see the house floor?

Is that the house floor?

Yeah.

Almost like a mosaic of daily life pressed down into the dirt.

Who lived here and how many people lived here? Well this was a Yupik settlement and about 200 people lived here.

Starting as early as 1450 AD.

This is all wood from Shakespeare's time.

Gosh, it's been preserved so well.

Because of the preservation here,

the average digger will find one or two jaw-dropping museum pieces per day.

Okay, well, let's keep digging.

At the edge of the world, archaeologist Rick Necht and his team are digging down,

and through the artifacts they find,

piecing together the story of a

historical community that came to an end more than 300 years ago.

The objects we're finding are important not just to local folks and their heritage,

but to our collective heritage as humans.

What's scary is that with climate change, this record is under threat.

It's a race against time, both against erosion and the fact that the permafrost is melted,

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