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'Iceman Oetzi' lived for a while after arrow wound

Oetzi, the 5,300-year-old "Iceman" mummy of the Alps, lived for some time after being shot in the back by an arrow, scientists said on Tuesday after using forensic technology to analyse his preserved blood.

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created May 02, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2

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