This man died more than 5,000 years ago. Ötzi The Iceman | FOG OF HISTORY

On this channel I show you real people who lived on our planet many years ago. For fans of Anthropology and History. Today I'm going to tell you about....

He was named Ötzi The Iceman, and his mummy is the oldest discovered in Europe. He was found by two hikers who were hiking in the Alps in 1991.

At the time of his death, Ötzi was about 45 to 46 years old, 165 centimeters tall and weighing 50. Before he died, he ate bran, roots, fruit, and deer and chamois meat. His last meal was two hours before he died. His hair had elevated levels of copper and lead, which may indicate that he may have had something to do with copper production. He also had many tattoos found on his skin.

All of his hunting equipment was found near his body. Including a billet bow, a leather quiver with 14 arrows in it, a Copper Axe, a stone knife with a handle made of Ash.

Judging by the arrow fragment stuck in his shoulder, Ötzi was killed, how, and why, is unknown. And it's unlikely we'll ever know.

[jasonrowe]

Otzi pissed off the wrong people that’s how he ended up dead in the mountains. He was being chased

[dave]

The oldest unsolved murder case in the world, Agatha Christie would have loved this case….

[jackofhearts]

This dude casually came and provided us the most mysterious story and made us curious which we never asked for .

[Jtone_philthy_aquatics]

45yrs old?! That’s really impressive to say the least considering all of the challenges life probably through at this man day in and day out! I didn’t think ppl lived to almost see 50 5, 000yrs ago.

[deetoxinz]

It's super odd that his body wasn't robbed either. He was killed and just left there for no reason. Cold blooded murder basically

[innerlight]

Imagine if we could hear their stories 😍😍😍

[bikashmishra]

The poor man's family would be waiting for him forever.

[Joseph]

This guy died 500 years before the pyramids were built. Thats crazy.

[chileung]

He had healthier food than most of us today!

[marcusbelanger]

This man had hopes, dreams, desires, flaws, skills, a family, he laughed, cried, lied, forgave, mourned, rejoiced. A whole universe of experiences and impacts on other people. He probably wasn’t very different from you or I.

[amunbains]

Otzi was the first to learn ‘fuck around and you’re guna find out’.

[lovelyandfloppy]

I love all the videos. The past is so fascinating

[lordwilmore]

2 hours before he died, he had his last meal more than 5000years ago😅

[ir-m]

He highly fought someone. He had many scratch wounds on his whole body and his jacket. Beside that arrow in his shoulder, he also suffered from a heavy hit to his head by a axe or something. He probably looked for a wind-protected shelter hour before his death, rested there and ate his last meal. Probably he tought he would recover at that save point and fill up his energy.

[blendvibes]

He was a good man
I met his children 3000 years ago

[tyleehamauku]

Need make a movie of his life.
He deserves that movie.
Mr Otzi needs a proper grave, with respect.

[safetcucaj]

Didn't Ozti prove to be deadly bad luck for those 2 who found him, the guy who transported him and even couple of the scientists who worked on Otzi?

[Mageroth]

"This man died 5000 years ago he was named Otzi the iceman, and his mummy was the oldest..." - I spilled my coffee

[mattmichniuk]

I read the iceman book, it was found his coat contained wheat or oat chaff as well as pollen making it fall when he passed by the village they were winnowing out the harvest he was being chased having a broken off arrow in his back/shoulder he tried to repair his bow that was broken, he took up a defensive position to lie down where he eventually died !Keeping watch for whomever shot him?

[alibaba-pufl]

La sua mummia è conservato nel Museo di città di Bolzano - BOZEN in Sudtirol. Ho avuto l'occasione di visitare questa scoperta straordinaria.