He dated the find to be 'at least four thousand years old' on the basis of the typology of an axe among the retrieved objects. On 24 September, the find was examined there by archaeologist Konrad Spindler of the University of Innsbruck. It was transported to the office of the medical examiner in Innsbruck, together with other objects found nearby. The body was extracted on 22 September and salvaged the following day. Within a short time, eight groups visited the site, among whom were mountaineers Hans Kammerlander and Reinhold Messner. The next day, a mountain gendarme and the keeper of the nearby Similaunhütte first attempted to remove the body, which was frozen in ice below the torso, using a pneumatic drill and ice axes, but bad weather forced them to give up. When the tourists, Helmut and Erika Simon, first saw the body, they both believed that they had happened upon a recently deceased mountaineer. Ötzi was found on 19 September 1991 by two German tourists, at an elevation of 3,210 m (10,530 ft) on the east ridge of the Fineilspitze in the Ötztal Alps on the Austrian–Italian border, near Similaun mountain and the Tisenjoch pass. His remains and personal belongings are on exhibit at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy.Ĭlass=notpageimage| Discovery site marked on a map of the Alps The nature of his life and the circumstances of his death are the subject of much investigation and speculation. He is Europe's oldest known natural human mummy, offering an unprecedented view of Chalcolithic (Copper Age) Europeans.īecause of the presence of an arrowhead embedded in his left shoulder and various other wounds, researchers believe Ötzi was killed. Ötzi's remains were discovered on 19 September 1991, in the Ötztal Alps (hence the nickname 'Ötzi', German: ) at the border between Austria and Italy. Ötzi, also called the Iceman, is the natural mummy of a man who lived between 33 BC. Oldest natural mummy of a Chalcolithic (Copper Age) European man

Similaun Man ( Italian: Mummia del Similaun) Ötztal Alps, near Tisenjoch on the border between Austria and Italy

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