The Iceman of the Italian Alps that was 5,300 years old named Otzi

In 1991 in the Italian Alps a 5,300-year-old "iceman" was discovered surrounded in ice. Scientists at first thought that the iceman they nicknamed "Otzi" was killed by hypothermia from exposure to the snow. Later, they found new evidence that shoved that the iceman might have been murdered. Scientists initially presumed that because of no obvious physical damages, the iceman had died from extreme weather conditions. This was a good theory at the beginning, but there were …

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