  | In 1991, a group of hikers were trekking in the mountains of Austria when they came across an awful sight: a frozen body was buried in the ice at their feet. That body belonged to a 5,300 year old man. Scientists have discovered some surprisingly specific facts since then. When he was alive, he had parasites in his intestines, was lactose intolerant, and had been sick three times in the past six months. 
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 A reconstruction of Otzi, based on forensics and 3D modeling. | He's older than the Giza pyramids and Stonehenge, Otzi the Tyrolean Iceman continues to teach us things. The latest study of the weapons he was found with reveals that Otzi was right-handed and had recently resharpened and reshaped some of his tools before his death. Otzi was shot in the back with an arrow by an archer and became naturally preserved in the ice. Otzi, his clothing and his tools were well-preserved. The arrowhead, embedded in his left shoulder, wasn't found until 2001. He would have bled out and died shortly after because it pierced a vital artery. |  |
 | With goat-leather leggings and a brown bear fur hat, Otzi must have strutted the Alps with style. Otzi the Iceman left behind his leather-heavy wardrobe and a slew of his accessories when he died in the Italian Alps. He was found with a very valuable copper ax. It is the only one of its kind ever found. During the Copper Age, copper axes were owned by men of high rank and buried with them. Copper was extremely valuable and a symbol of high status.  |
 | Otzi’s final meal was high in fat, with traces of red deer and ibex — a type of wild goat — in his stomach along with einkorn wheat. When he died his stomach was full, meaning he probably ate shortly before he was attacked or was eating when the arrow hit. |  Otzi left behind a stone dagger, bows, leather quiver, tinder fungus, birch. |
