Ötzi
Well-preserved natural prehistoric mummy · Italy · Lived 3275 BC to 3230 BC · aged 45
Ötzi is read about 3,133 times a day, in 68 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 27 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A murder victim from 3350-3105 BC, preserved in ice for over five thousand years. The arrowhead still lodged in his shoulder made him Europe's oldest cold case.
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Reconstruction of the neolithic clothes worn by Ötzi at the Archeoparc Museum
A replica of Ötzi's shoe at the Bata Shoe Museum![Lineup of Ötzi's lithic assemblage: Wierer, U., Arrighi, S., Bertola, S., Kaufmann, G., Baumgarten, B., Pedrotti, A., Pernter, P. and Pelegrin, J. (2018) \"The Iceman's lithic toolkit: Raw material, technology, typology and use\". ''PLOS ONE'', '''13'''(6): e0198292. {{doi|10.1371/journal.pone.0198292|doi-access=free}} The original caption in Wierer et al. read \"The Iceman lithic assemblage. a) Dagger, b) Endscraper, c) Borer, d) Arrowhead 14, e) Arrowhead 12, f) Small flake.\" The text of Wierer et al.'s paper makes it clear that this a typo and the labels for the borer and small flake have been swapped. e.g.: \"The 48.5 mm long artefact known as a borer has its maximum thickness at its maximum width (7.8 x 13.5 mm) (Fig 1F)\" and \"The smallest item contained in the belt poach is a small flake of 19 x 12.5 x 1.6 mm size (Fig 1C)\"."}},"i":0}}]}" id="mwAZ8">DaggerEnd scraperSmall flakeArrowhead 14Arrowhead 12Borer[54]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/%C3%96tzi_the_Iceman_-_Lithic_assemblage.png/500px-%C3%96tzi_the_Iceman_-_Lithic_assemblage.png)
Lineup of Ötzi's lithic assemblage: Wierer, U., Arrighi, S., Bertola, S., Kaufmann, G., Baumgarten, B., Pedrotti, A., Pernter, P. and Pelegrin, J. (2018) \"The Iceman's lithic toolkit: Raw material, technology, typology and use\". ''PLOS ONE'', '''13'''(6): e0198292. {{doi|10.1371/journal.pone.0198292|doi-access=free}} The original caption in Wierer et al. read \"The Iceman lithic assemblage. a) Dagger, b) Endscraper, c) Borer, d) Arrowhead 14, e) Arrowhead 12, f) Small flake.\" The text of Wierer et al.'s paper makes it clear that this a typo and the labels for the borer and small flake have been swapped. e.g.: \"The 48.5 mm long artefact known as a borer has its maximum thickness at its maximum width (7.8 x 13.5 mm) (Fig 1F)\" and \"The smallest item contained in the belt poach is a small flake of 19 x 12.5 x 1.6 mm size (Fig 1C)\"."}},"i":0}}]}" id="mwAZ8">DaggerEnd scraperSmall flakeArrowhead 14Arrowhead 12Borer[54]
A replica of Ötzi's copper axe
Reconstructions of Ötzi's last days, based on his last itinerary and meals, the state of his wounds, the causes of his death and the damaged and insufficient equipment, following multiple studies.
The Ötzi memorial near Tisenjoch. Ötzi was found about 70 m (230 ft) northeast, a place indicated with a red mark (not pictured).About this person
Ötzi lived during the Chalcolithic period, somewhere in what became the Alps. On 19 September 1991, hikers found his naturally mummified remains emerging from a glacier in the Ötztal Alps, right where Austria meets Italy. The body carried an arrowhead embedded in the left shoulder and other wounds - evidence that someone killed him more than five millennia ago. He became Europe's oldest known natural human mummy, offering an unmatched snapshot of Copper Age life. Today his remains and belongings sit in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, where researchers continue parsing the details of how he lived and why he died.
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