An emergency dig is on to recover displaced artifacts in Alaska before the next storm

During Typhoon Halong in 2025, thousands of objects from an archeological dig site in western Alaska were torn from the earth and scattered across miles of coastline. Now, there’s an emergency dig.

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Last October, remnants of a typhoon swept through western Alaska causing widespread flooding and displacing hundreds of people from their homes. But for the village of Quinhagak, it also flooded a critical piece of their past, an archaeological dig site. KYUK’s Samantha Watson reports on efforts to excavate