Naked History – Unearthed

Secrets of Otzi the Ice Mummy


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Otzi the Iceman is one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of all

time. He is a perfectly preserved ice ‘mummy’, frozen high in the Alps for 5000 years. Investigators have discovered that he lived and died before the Pyramids and Stonehenge.

Who was the iceman, was he murdered and what can his remains tell us

about the world he comes from?

Now fresh investigations of his possessions – including an astonishing

copper axe – are revealing a world far more sophisticated that we imagined.
Otzi lived at a time of great change – did this contribute to his untimely
death in the mountains?

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Naked History – UnearthedBy Windfall Films