Ötzi, also called The Iceman, is the natural mummy of a man who lived between 3350 and 3105 BC. Ötzi's remains were discovered on 19 September 1991, in the Ötztal Alps (hence the nickname "Ötzi", German: [œtsi]) at the Austria–Italy border.

Apr 3, 2025 · Ötzi, an ancient mummified human body that was found by German tourists, Erika and Helmut Simon, on the Similaun Glacier in the Tirolean Ötztal Alps, on the Italian-Austrian border, on September 19, 1991.

Jan 2, 2025 · Over 5300 years ago, Ötzi was crossing Tisenjoch/Giogo di Tisa in the Schnalstal/Val Senales Valley, South Tyrol, where he was murdered and preserved naturally in the ice. He is therefore older than the Egyptian pyramids and Stonehenge and the result of a series of highly improbable coincidences.

Aug 16, 2023 · Ötzi the Iceman, whose frozen remains were found in a gully high in the Tyrolean Alps by hikers in 1991, is perhaps the world’s most closely studied corpse. The mystery over his violent death, who...

Dec 14, 2021 · Ötzi the Iceman is the well-preserved, 5,300-year-old mummy that caused an international sensation when it was dug out of a glacier high in the Italian Alps in 1991.

Ötzi and his artefacts have been exhibited at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy since 1998. Why is Ötzi so fascinating? We experience Ötzi almost like a time traveller. Can't visit the South Tyrol Museum od Archaeology in Bolzano? Book a 360° guided online tour!

Nov 10, 2022 · Hikers discovered Ötzi the ice mummy in September 1991 in the Tyrolean Alps. Photo by Leopold Nekula / Sygma via Getty Images. In September 1991, German hikers exploring the Tyrolean Alps between...

Nov 7, 2022 · Ötzi the iceman is the holy grail of glacial archaeology, nothing less. The discovery of the 5300-year-old mummified body and the associated artefacts created a media frenzy and great public interest. Today, 250,000 people visit the Ötzi Museum in Bolzano each year to get a glimpse of Ötzi and the exhibited artefacts.

Feb 9, 2025 · In 1991, two hikers in the Ötztal Alps on the Austria-Italy border stumbled upon a remarkable find—an exceptionally well-preserved mummy emerging from the ice. Dubbed Ötzi the Iceman, this discovery provided an unprecedented glimpse into life over 5,000 years ago during the Copper Age.

Ötzi is a wet mummy that was mummified naturally in the glacier ice. Due to the length of time it lay in the snow and ice, the body dehydrated, i.e. much of the body fluid was lost. Most mummies were treated with substances to preserve them as part …