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"On a warm September day in 1991, two German hikers stumbled upon a frozen, intact body melting out of the remains of a glacier in the Tyrolean Alps. Over the next few days, as a parade of often irreverent visitors poked and prodded the mummy-like corpse, curious items began to emerge from the ice: an ax with a metal blade, a longbow, finely stitched leather clothing, and, most astonishing of all - boots stuffed with grass. But only after the corpse was recovered and taken for an autopsy to the medical examiner in Innsbruck, Austria, did a vigilant archaeologist recognize that this was no…
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4 editions- Paperback · English · 2002Pan Books · 336 pages · 9780330481779
- Other · English · 2001University of Chicago Press · 315 pages · 9780226258232
- Other · English · 2001Macmillan · 315 pages · 9780333901786
- Other · English · 2000Random House · 313 pages · 9780679431671
Copper ageMummiesAntiquitiesNeolithic periodOtzi (Ice mummy)ItalyPrehistoric peoplesNew York Times reviewed






