Ötzi the Iceman, Reconstructed
A forensic reconstruction of Ötzi the Iceman, whose naturally mummified body was found in the Ötztal Alps in 1991, dated to around 3300 BC.
German hikers found Ötzi's body melting out of a glacier on the Austrian-Italian border in September 1991, at first assuming it was a modern mountaineering accident until archaeologists realized his copper axe, flint tools, and grass-woven cape belonged to the Copper Age. Preserved by ice for over 5,000 years, his body has yielded an astonishing amount of data: his last meals, his tattoos (the oldest known on a human body), evidence of Lyme disease and joint wear, and — most dramatically — an arrowhead lodged in his shoulder, showing he was murdered shortly before he died. Ötzi remains the oldest and most complete natural human mummy ever found, and is preserved today at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy.
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