Who KILLED Ötzi the Iceman?

He was shot in the back 5,300 years ago. For decades, scientists thought he bled out in minutes. A 2025 study just proved them wrong. In 1991, two hikers found a body melting out of a glacier in the Alps. It turned out to be the oldest natural human mummy ever discovered in Europe — and the victim of a Copper Age murder. This is the full story of Ötzi the Iceman: who he was, how he lived, how he fought, and what a team of modern surgeons just revealed about how he really died.

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