Oetzi the Iceman has a new look. Decades after the famous glacier mummy was discovered in the Italian Alps, scientists have dug back into his DNA to paint a better picture of the ancient hunter. They determined that Oetzi was mostly descended from farmers from present day Turkey, and his ...
The peculiarity of this mummy is that is "wet" and not "dry" like the Egyptian mummies, to keep this treasure, witnessing of the human evolution, a special thermal safe was conceived, designed, manufactured and presently maintained in the museum of Bolzano ,...
In celebration, the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy, where the Iceman's mortal remains are on display, opened a massive Otzi exhibit this week featuring a brand-new reconstruction by the Dutch master paleoartists Adrie and Alfons Kennis {Science, 10 July 2009, p. 136)....
His well-preserved, mummified remains are now at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy.Estimates suggest that at the time of his abrupt death, this Neolithic man was 45 years old, stood about 1.65 metres (5 ft 5 in) tall, and weighed about 50 kilos (110...