Topic ID #12543 - posted 6/23/2011 3:22 PM
Jennifer Palmer
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Iceman's Stomach Sampled - Filled With Goat Meat
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
Iceman's Stomach Sampled—Filled With Goat Meat
Missing until 2009, mummy's stomach found to contain lumps of last meal.
Ker Than
for National Geographic News
Published June 23, 2011
Hours before he died, "Ötzi" the Iceman gorged on the fatty meat of a wild goat, according to a new analysis of the famous mummy's stomach contents.
The frozen body of the Copper Age hunter was discovered in 1991 in the Alps of northern Italy, where he died some 5,000 years ago.
The circumstances surrounding Ötzi's death are not fully known, but the most popular theory—based in part on the discovery of an arrowhead in his back—is that he was murdered by other hunters while fleeing through the mountains.
Read more here.
Missing until 2009, mummy's stomach found to contain lumps of last meal.
Ker Than
for National Geographic News
Published June 23, 2011
Hours before he died, "Ötzi" the Iceman gorged on the fatty meat of a wild goat, according to a new analysis of the famous mummy's stomach contents.
The frozen body of the Copper Age hunter was discovered in 1991 in the Alps of northern Italy, where he died some 5,000 years ago.
The circumstances surrounding Ötzi's death are not fully known, but the most popular theory—based in part on the discovery of an arrowhead in his back—is that he was murdered by other hunters while fleeing through the mountains.
Read more here.
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