European Mummies
Man from the Hauslabjoch
"In September 1991 two hikers made a sensational discovery - a frozen body high in the mountains, near the border between Austria and Italy. It turned out to be 5,300 years old, the oldest frozen mummy ever found. Named tzi the Iceman after the tztal area where he was found, he became a worldwide sensation."-[BBC]-
"..The Iceman did not die on a full stomach. Eight hours before his death on a barren Alpine pass, he was in the valley to the south, in what is today Italy's Schnals Valley.." -[PBS: NOVA]-
"Dramatic new evidence has emerged concerning the final hours of "Otzi", the Bronze Age hunter whose frozen body was found in the Alps in 1991."
An ABC News Article. Scientists Thaw 5,300-Year-Old Man to Learn More About His Kind, His Time... "The worlds oldest, best preserved mummy was temporarily defrosted Monday so scientists could probe his body in an attempt to learn more about his life and, particularly, his death."
"The oldest tattooed body known to date was discovered in 1991. It is that of a Bronze Age man who died over 5,000 years when he was apparently caught in a snow storm during a hunting trip on a mountain between Austria and Italy."
"The discovery of a corpse on a glacier in the Oetztal Alps, on the Austrian border with Italy, became big news all over the world in 1991. This was no ordinary cadaver: it was nothing more nor less than the remarkably well-preserved body of a man who had lived in the late Neolithic period, some five thousand-odd years ago."
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