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Ötzi, also called The Iceman, is the natural mummy of a man who lived between 3350 and 3105 BC. Ötzi's remains were discovered on 19 September 1991, in the Ötztal Alps (hence the nickname "Ötzi", German:) at the Austria–Italy border.
Jun 24, 2024 · Ötzi the Iceman: preserved in the ice. for 5300 years. Ötzi, the glacier mummy, is displayed in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy together with his clothing and equipment.
Aug 16, 2023 · Ötzi the Iceman, whose frozen remains were found in a gully high in the Tyrolean Alps by hikers in 1991, is perhaps the world’s most closely studied corpse. The mystery over his violent death,...
Nov 10, 2022 · In September 1991, German hikers exploring the Tyrolean Alps between Italy and Austria made a shocking discovery: a human corpse. Though officials initially assumed that the man had died recently...
May 30, 2024 · Otzi, an ancient mummified body of a human male that was found on the Similaun Glacier in the Tirolean Otztal Alps, on the Italian-Austrian border, in 1991. The body was radiocarbon-dated to 3300 BCE.
Sep 15, 2021 · Ötzi the Iceman: What we know 3 decades after his discovery. Considered "Europe’s most famous mummy," the remains of the man who was murdered in the Alps 5,000 years ago continue to reveal...
Dec 14, 2021 · Ötzi the Iceman is the well-preserved, 5,300-year-old mummy that caused an international sensation when it was dug out of a glacier high in the Italian Alps in 1991.
Oct 30, 2019 · The famed mummy died from an arrow to the back on a high Alpine mountain pass 5,300 years ago. Now researchers are tracing his unusual movements right before his murder. A wounded—and possibly ...
Sep 19, 2021 · Ötzi, the Iceman is still a world sensation today, a bit like the Guinness Book of Stone Age Records: he is the oldest wet mummy in the world with completely preserved clothing and equipment, including the world’s only intact dagger and copper axe from the Neolithic Age.
The mummy. Ötzi is a wet mummy that was mummified naturally in the glacier ice. Due to the length of time it lay in the snow and ice, the body dehydrated, i.e. much of the body fluid was lost. Most mummies were treated with substances to preserve them as part of ritual burial after their organs had been removed.
