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Bolzano, Oetzi Exhibition 30 December 07
Section: article
Categories: Exhibition / museum
Finally I had the opportunity to visit the fascinating museum exhibition dedicated to the mummified remains of a man → who died in the nearby mountains about 5,300 years ago.
Ötzi the Iceman (pronounced [ˈœtsi]), Frozen Fritz, and Similaun Man are modern nicknames of a well-preserved natural mummy of a man from about 3300 BC (53 centuries ago), found in 1991 in the Schnalstal glacier in the Ötztal Alps, near Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria and Italy. The nickname comes from Ötztal, the region in which he was discovered. He is Europe’s oldest natural human mummy, and has offered an unprecedented view of Chalcolithic (Copper Age) Europeans.
By current estimates, at the time of his death Ötzi was approximately 1.65 m (5.4 ft) tall, weighed about 50 kg (110 lb/7.9 st) and was about 45 years of age. When his body was found, it weighed 38 kg (84 lb/6.0 st).
(Quotes are from the link in the text above.)
- Title: Bolzano, Oetzi Exhibition
- Venue: Archeological Museum, Bolzano, Italy
← Munich, Germany, Pinakothek Museum ←
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