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Crucial mummy found 20 years ago Monday

Twenty years ago Monday, a German couple hiking the Italian Alps veered off a marked footpath and stumbled upon one of the world's oldest and most important archeological finds: Oetzi, "The Iceman".

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created Sep 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 2

Iceman Oetzi gets a new face for 20th anniversary

Iceman Oetzi, whose mummified body was famously found frozen in the Italian Alps in 1991, will get a new face for the 20th anniversary of his discovery.

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created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Oetzi, the Iceman, was ceremonially buried: archaeologist

Oetzi, the 5,300-year-old "Iceman", may not have died at the site in the Italian Alps where he was found 19 years ago, but was only ceremonially buried there, according to a new theory revealed on Thursday.

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created Aug 26, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Oetzi's last days: Glacier man may have been attacked twice

Another chapter in a murder case over 5000 years old. New investigations by an LMU research team working together with a Bolzano colleague reconstructed the chronology of the injuries that Oetzi, the glacier man preserved ...

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created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Iceman's new model on display at Bolzano museum

Visitors will get to see Iceman Oetzi under a new light starting Tuesday at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, which celebrates the 20th anniversary of the mummy's discovery.

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created Feb 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Oetzi's last supper

What we eat can say a lot about us – where we live, how we live and eventually even when we lived. From the analysis of the intestinal contents of the 5,200-year-old Iceman from the Eastern Alps, Professor James Dickson from ...

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created Dec 01, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (23) | comments 3

Oetzi the Iceman dressed like a herdsman

A famous Neolithic Iceman is dressed in clothes made from sheep and cattle hair, a new study shows. The researchers say their findings support the idea that the Iceman was a herdsman, and that their technique, reported today ...

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created Aug 21, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 2

Western Canada's Glaciers Hit 7000-Year Low

Tree stumps at the feet of Western Canadian glaciers are providing new insights into the accelerated rates at which the rivers of ice have been shrinking due to human-aided global warming.

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created Oct 30, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (28) | comments 3

Italy sets up new iceman lab

A new research center is being developed in Bolzano, Italy, to lead research into the famed Iceman mummy.

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created Jul 13, 2007 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Iceman may have been infertile

The prehistoric man discovered in 1991 on a glacier in the Alps had roots in Central Europe and may have been infertile, say Italian researchers.

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created Feb 03, 2006 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Major Climate Change Occurred 5,200 Years Ago: Evidence Suggests That History Could Repeat Itself

Glaciologist Lonnie Thompson worries that he may have found clues that show history repeating itself, and if he is right, the result could have important implications to modern society. Thompson has spent his career trekking t ...

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created Dec 16, 2004 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0


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