The Iceman's tattoos align with classic acupuncture points, and the plants found amongst his belongings have well-known medical applications (© South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology/EURAC/Samadelli/Staschitz)
The Iceman's tattoos align with classic acupuncture points, and the plants found amongst his belongings have well-known medical applications (© South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology/EURAC/Samadelli/Staschitz)
I visited the Ötzi Museum in Bolzano last year. Very well done exhibit, and I can highly recommend it.
He looks like a meth addict
An arrow to the knee would have been more fitting.
Listening to a comedian on an old Carson Show: “It amazes me how and anthropologist can find a finger bone and declare that “he liked to dance”.....
"Nasty, brutish and short."
News? I read this about the iceman more than 20 years ago.
Are medical tattoos covered by ObamaCare?
He was killed by someone he knew. He was trying to escape his own village for some reason and was shot in the back. The killer did not take the copper axe that would have been enormously valuable, because everyone would have known whose axe it was and how the new bearer came to have it.
Actually, his name is Bob.
enter him in the Ink Master competition. High marks for the staying power of the tattoos without fade.
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