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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: [œtsi]) at the Austria–Italy border.
Jun 24, 2024 · Ötzi the Iceman. Archaeologic sensation, media star, research topic, museum object: Ötzi is a glacier mummy from the Copper Age, who, thanks to extraordinary circumstances, has been preserved down to the present day. Little by little, he has imparted genuine stores of knowledge.
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...
Nov 10, 2022 · SMART NEWS. Rewriting the Story of Ötzi, the Murdered Iceman. A new study suggests that nearly everything archaeologists thought they knew about the 5,300-year-old corpse’s preservation was...
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.
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,...
Jan 4, 2020 · Otzi, as the iceman is now known, had been naturally mummified by the ice and kept in amazing condition for approximately 5,300 years. Research on Otzi's preserved body and the various artifacts found with it continues to reveal much about the life of Copper Age Europeans.
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.
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.
