"Iceman" Oetzi or Etsi - Ice mummy of ancient man, discovered in 1991 in the Tyrolean Alps on a glacier in the Ötztal valley Similaun at an altitude of 3200 meters. Age mummy, defined by the radiocarbon method is about 5300 years. Currently, scientists continue to study the mummies.
Hand "ice man" lying on a sterile foil.
After the mummy was brought to the laboratory, researchers have raised the temperature is 64 degrees Fahrenheit, to unfreeze the mummy. Melt water were examined for the presence of bacteria, which contributed to an ancient mummy so well preserved.
After lasted nine o'clock autopsy, the mummy was returned to the starting temperature of 21 degrees Fahrenheit and placed in a glass sarcophagus. Studies conducted in the Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano South Tyrol, Italy.
The red arrow points to the spot where the body was found two Etsi German tourists from Nuremberg in 1991, at an altitude of 3200 meters. When Etsi were found stone tools and artifacts of the Neolithic.
In the area of the knee at the foot of the mummy can see the tattoo in the shape of a cross. Scientists suggest that this is - a kind of rite of traces, aimed at treatment of arthritis.
The reconstruction of the mummy and found in the "ice man" outfit. At the foot of a mummy found a combination of two types of tinder. One of them - birch tinder, and the second - a real tinder. In addition, at the foot of the mummy was a knife and shoes. In addition, a copper ax was found, two arrows and string of bark of a tree.
Dr. Edward Egarter Wigley and colleagues studied using an endoscope arrowhead, ensconced in his shoulder mummy. Bolt broke an artery, causing a large loss of blood.
X-ray shoulder "ice man", an arrow marked with a red arrow.
Scientists have spent nine hours in the study of mummies, trying to figure out the details of life and death "Iceman."
Fossilized stomach contents "Iceman." Doctors joke that he had a good appetite.
Neurosurgeons believe that shortly before his death "ice man" got a head injury.
Two types of tinder. Presumably, they were used for medical purposes, including to stop the bleeding.
Knife and "sheath" "Iceman."
Ax with a blade made of copper, which suggests that, in his tribe, "ice man" held a high position.
Two arrows, which are used for hunting and self defense.
Leaf maple, found among the equipment "Iceman." researchers found that the sheet was torn from the tree in late spring.
Lace wood bark. its purpose is not installed.
Shoes - consisting of grass, a deer skin and skin the bear. It's shoes - one of the oldest ever found by scientists.
Dr. Eduard Egarter Wigley covers the mummy with a special solution before placing it back in a glass sarcophagus.
The mummy is in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy. The room temperature is maintained at 21 degrees Fahrenheit and humidity of 98.5 percent, simulating ice cap, which protected the mummy for five thousand years.
Under assumptions of scientists, the ice man could be a little more than forty years.
Hand "ice man" lying on a sterile foil.
Dutch artists Adrie and Alfons Kennys used the results of 3-D-scan skeleton "ice man" to recreate its full size copy. Scientists initially thought that Oetzi's eyes were blue, the latest DNA testing confirmed that his eyes were brown.
Shoes "ice man" on the glass model.
