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Tourists stumbled across dead body on mountain that turned out to be 5,300-year-old man [View all]
Gerrard Kaonga
Published 14:46, 04 March 2024 GMT
| Last updated 15:16, 04 March 2024 GMT
Tourists managed to find one of the greatest archeological discoveries ever after stumbling across a dead body that just happened to be 5,300 years old.
The monumental discovery has been called the ‘holy grail’ of glacial archaeology and came to be known as Ötzi or the Iceman.
He is now recognised as the oldest known natural human glacier mummy and provided a great look into the Europeans of the Copper Age.
Ötzi was found on September 19 in 1991 by two German tourists who were hiking towards Tisenjoch saddleback in the Ötztal Alps, a mountain range in Italy.
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https://www.unilad.com/news/oldest-mummy-europe-otzi-iceman-243091-20240304
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