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Ötzi born!
Ötzi – a new understanding of the holy grail of glacial archaeology
Ötzi the iceman is the holy grail of glacial archaeology, nothing less.
Erika and helmut simon
The discovery of the 5300-year-old mummified body and the associated artefacts created a media frenzy and great public interest. Today, 250,000 people visit the Ötzi Museum in Bolzano each year to get a glimpse of Ötzi and the exhibited artefacts.
A wealth of scientific papers, popular books and documentaries are available.
Ötzi melted out of the ice in 1991 in a gully at the Tisenjoch pass close to the Italian/Austrian border. The original interpretation of the find by the Innsbruck-based archaeologist Konrad Spindler was that Ötzi fled to the mountains in the autumn after a conflict.
He froze to death in the snow-free gully.
Ötzi the iceman curseSnow and ice quickly covered him, and then a moving glacier. Ötzi remained encased in ice until he melted out in 1991. How else could the preservation of the body and artefacts be explained?
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