The Iceman Was Unique, We Thought. But Others Could Follow : ScienceAlert
The hikers who first stumbled onto a completely frozen mummy within a European alpine gully in 1991 must have received quite the shock.Since then, the roughly 5,200-year-old murder victim, Ötzi the Iceman, has continued surprising people – including the archaeologists now studying him.The Neolithic mummy was thought to have been preserved by a freak event that's unlikely to reoccur – that he was freeze-dried and encased in a glacier right after he was fatally shot in the back with an arrow.But after a fresh analysis,…