The museum was specifically established in 1998 to
house ‘Otzi’- a well-preserved natural mummy of a man from about 3300 BC. This
is the world’s oldest natural human mummy (wet mummy).
On September 19, 1991, two German hikers came across
a human corpse in the Otztal Alps. The day after, an Austrian team undertook
the first attempt to remove the man from the ice. Soon after the mummy was
recovered, rumors spread that it had actually been found on the Italian side of
the border and not – as originally thought – on Austrian soil. The following
month, it was clarified the found was on the Italian side. After the Austrian
University finished archaeological investigations, the mummy was brought back
to Italy.
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