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This Iceman Is 5,300 Year Old And The Most Perfectly Preserved Human Being Ever Found!

  • 6:07 pm September 10, 2020
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Our planet has stored a lot of secrets within itself that are extremely intriguing. One couple unearthed one such secret while trekking in the mountains. They found a perfectly naturally preserved man! This discovery was stunning! Wow!

While Trekking!

A lot of times in your life, you end up finding things unintentionally. This adventurous couple did the same. Helmut and Erika Simon were enjoying their hike in the Austro-Italian Alps and came across a body (later named “Ötzi the Iceman”). This is when they found a skeleton.



A Massive Discovery

Authorities were informed of this. What seemed like a normal hikers body turned out to be a massive discovery. The couple stumbled across the remains of a Copper Age man while hiking through an Alpine glacier.The man was extracted with a small jackhammer and ice axes, and then transported to a morgue in Innsbruck.

Otzi the Iceman

The body was later named “Otzi the Iceman.” “Otzi the Iceman” was the oldest preserved human. Experts estimate that he died between 3350 and 3100 B.C. Believe it or not, Ötzi had 50 tattoos and died in spring or summer. The body was shipped off to Zurich, and Swiss researchers did an extensive examination and X-raying.



Important Information

Thanks to tests, it was revealed that Ötzi was naturally mummified about 5,300 years ago. He was around 45 years old, 165 centimeters tall, and weighed about 84 pounds. The levels of copper particles and arsenic found in the man’s hair suggested that he was a copper smelter by trade. Now these are some crucial piece of information about the body.

How did he die?

Now the next obvious question is how did this man died? CT scans showed there was an arrowhead lodged in his left shoulder. It damaged a big artery on the way. According to experts, Otzi had joined a raiding party against another tribe as he wasn’t on home turf. Today, this body is being displayed in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano.



Maybe This is How!

Now the studies show that this is a little glimpse of how he would've actually looked when he was alive! Looks great!