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Ötzi's remains were discovered on 19 September 1991, in the Ötztal Alps (hence the nickname "Ötzi", German: [œtsi]) at the Austria–Italy border. He is Europe's oldest known natural human mummy, offering an unprecedented view of Chalcolithic (Copper Age) Europeans.
16 sie 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...
24 paź 2024 · A man from another era Over 5300 years ago, Ötzi was crossing Tisenjoch/Giogo di Tisa in the Schnalstal/Val Senales Valley, South Tyrol, where he was murdered and preserved naturally in the ice. He is therefore older than the Egyptian pyramids and Stonehenge and the result of a series of highly improbable coincidences.
21 sty 2022 · On Sept. 19, 1991, two hikers came across a frozen corpse in the Austro-Italian Alps. They had no way of knowing at the time just how historic their find was — as the corpse was later revealed to be the oldest preserved human being ever found, now known as Ötzi the Iceman.
14 gru 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.
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.
18 paź 2013 · Scholars continue to be amazed by the ancient man found frozen in the Alps. October 18, 2013. • 4 min read. A report that Ötzi the Iceman has 19 genetic relatives living in Austria is the...