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A Stone Age Mystery

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In September 1991 two tourists near the Austro-Italian border found a body frozen in the ice. Was it a lost mountaineer? A murder victim? Or something else?

Investigators found that the dead man was in his 40s. They also found that he had many tattoos and was wearing warm clothes. They discovered that this man lived 5,300 years ago. He is the oldest and best-kept mummy ever found. The man in the ice, who scientists called Otzi, lived many thousands of years ago. But the story written in his clothes, tools, skin, hair — and even inside his body will help us find out about our ancestors from the Stone Age.

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Mummy: a body that has been preserved by natural or artificial means.
Ancestor: a relative of ours who lived before our time.

For further information visit:
The South Tyrol Museum of Archeology