Ötzi the Iceman is a well-preserved natural mummy of a man from about 3300 BC found in 1991 in the Schnalstal glacier in the Ötztal Alps, on the border between Austria and Italy. He is Europe's oldest natural human mummy.
Ötzi was found by two German tourists from Nuremberg, Helmut and Erika Simon, on September 19, 1991. The body was at first thought to be a modern corpse. The body was taken to a morgue in Innsbruck, where its true age was subsequently ascertained.
During the 16 years since he was discovered, scientists have poked, prodded, and x-rayed the 5,000-year-old mummy and they now think he was murdered.
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