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  • Iceman's 'Girlfriend' Found [ Lady of Introd ]

    07/25/2011 3:49:54 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 75 replies
    Discovery News ^ | Wednesday, July 20, 2011 | Rossella Lorenzi
    Italian workers building an addition to a kindergarten have unearthed a well preserved female skeleton who might be relatively contemporaneous with Ötzi, the Iceman mummy discovered 20 years ago in a melting glacier in South Tyrol. The "Lady of Introd" or "Ötzi's girlfriend," as the skeleton was nicknamed in Italy, was found in the tiny Alpine village of Introd, in the Val d'Aosta, famous to be the preferred vacationing spot for both Pope John II and his successor Benedict XVI. According to archaeologists and anthropologists, the woman has been lying on her right side, with her head facing west, for...