A Stone Age Cold Case: Ötzi the ‘Iceman’ Thawed and Refroze Many Times, Researchers Say
by Isaac Schultz from on (#65QSA)
In 1991, a pair of climbers encountered a human body sticking out of the ice high in the Italian alps. Though its skin was preserved-complete with tattoos-the body turned out to be 5,300-year-old remains, mummified by the frigid, dry conditions in which the man died. Now known as Otzi, the famously well-preserved...