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Onward: A 5,300-Year-Old Mummy with Keys to the Future | National Geographic


okay so I still wear a helmet or
this is one of the oldest crimes that
exists it’s like a crime scene
investigation what we’re doing there
my name is Albert Singh and the head of
the Institute for Mamas and the Iseman
he had the European Academy bolzano
italy i’m responsible for the research
on the iceman a 5000 year old mummy the
Iceman was found in the Alps in an area
that it’s called star outs the spot is
in in Haiti of 3,300
we know that he was killed he was killed
directly in the spot by an by an arrow
shot
for our snowshoes
such an interesting story it’s a crime
story and for sure we want to know about
how he died and why he died and because
it’s also such a spectacular finding
this map is such an old mummy it’s the
only one we have here this region of
such an high age do you think there
could be more mummies in this area maybe
maybe I think there could be some at
least some evidence from other people
maybe also just some other arrows maybe
it was just one shot or or maybe there
were more people and they we are losing
some things or leaving some equipment
here over and out
I think the IceMen is so special because
on the one hand he is perfectly
preserved and he really gives us unique
insights into this time that we don’t
know so much about it contains a lot of
information also on different diseases
we had some genetic predisposition for
coronary heart diseases and this is a
disease what we all always believed is a
modern day disease I think we can learn
a lot if you study these mummies and
understand how as what role blazing the
genes and what role plays the nutrition
this could help to find new ways to to
avoid the diseases or to better also
deal with these diseases in the end the
heisman is one of our ancestors and it’s
very interesting to understand also
though the past and where we came from
and how they already were able to adapt
to their environment how they managed to
live and without all these modern
technologies we have and so on you can
really still feel somehow that this
person was alive 5000 years ago
I think maybe there are some more
secrets to be found up there in the
mountains
because we really would need to have a
bigger excavation area surrounding the
finding spot was never really
investigated in detail I think maybe
they could find more incidents about
other people maybe about the person who
shot him maybe about other people that
were with him or we’re with another
group that chased him and then killed
him because and this something that
still needs to be explored and I hope we
can really start this within the next
days
you
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