The Iceman was discovered on the 19th September 1991 by a German couple, Helmut and Erika Simons, who were hiking near the Austrian and Italian border in the Alps. They both had wandered slightly off trail when Erika spotted a head and shoulders sticking out of the ice, she first thought it was a discarded doll, but it was later found out to be an ancient traveler now known as the Iceman. The Iceman was quickly …
showed first 75 words of 2160 total

showed last 75 words of 2160 total
…preserved (his eyeballs are still intact inside his eye sockets), Otzi is now kept in a computer refrigerated stainless steel container which is kept constantly under minus six degrees so that he would be able to last forever and so that in the future, other scientists can examine Otzi and see what surprises Otzi has in store for the world, and maybe find out more about this 5300 year old man who would forever stay immortal.