The cramped space was home to 20 World War One soldiers shielding from the bitterly cold terrain of an Italian mountain.
The men, from the Austro-Hungarian army, were engaged in fierce fighting with Italian troops in a battle known as the White War, which ended in November 1918.
After the three-and-a-half-year conflict, the men’s brand leather shoes wooden barracks, which were inside a cave and southwest office shoes. overlooked the Stelvio Pass on Mount Scorluzzo, in Lombardy, were locked up and became encased in ice.
Then, in 2015, researchers were able to enter the 9,000ft-high den for the first time after its ice prison melted completely due to global warming.
Inside, they found newspapers, tinned food, straw beds, clothes and lanterns and the remains of animals eaten by the men who were once based within it.
Now, the refuge has been fully excavated and the relics it once held are to go on display in a new museum which is set to open in the Lombardy town of Bormio in 2022, according to <a style="font-weight: bold;" class="class" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" website Guardian.
Scroll down for video.
Barracks belonging to Austro-Hungarian troops who fought in the White War in the Italian mountains in the First World War have emerged after the ice encasing them melted.
Inside, newspapers, tinned food, straw beds, clothes and lanterns and the remains of animals eaten by the men who were once based within it
The men, from the Austro-Hungarian army, were engaged in fierce fighting with Italian troops in a battle known as the White War, which ended in November 1918. After the three-and-a-half-year conflict, the Men’s shoes wooden barracks, which were inside a cave and overlooked the Stelvio Pass on Mount Scorluzzo, in Lombardy, were locked up and became encased in ice Pictured: Excavators working in the unearthed barracks
Then, in 2015, researchers were able to enter the 9,000ft-high den for the first time after its ice prison melted completely due to global warming
A video filmed by the excavating team showed them working inside the barracks, along with the items they recovered
Historian Stefano Morisini, who coordinates heritage projects at Stelvio national park, told the newspaper: ‘The barracks is a time capsule of the White War that helps us to understand the extreme, starving conditions that the soldiers experienced.
‘The knowledge we’re able to gather today from the relics is a positive consequence of the negative fact of climate change.’
Marco Ghizzoni, who works at the White War museum in Lombardy, said a corpse is found ‘every two or three years’, usually in areas where there was fighting.
