The 5,300-Year-Old Man Found Frozen In The Alps — And The DNA Test That Revealed His Hidden Origins
He was likely bald.
He had brown eyes.
He was going bald in his mid-40s, and his teeth hurt, and his joints ached, and he had Lyme disease, and someone shot him in the back while he was eating lunch in a mountain hollow.
The DNA test revealed all of this — not fully, not completely, not without the appropriate qualifications about what genetics can and cannot determine about a single ancient individual.
But it revealed it clearly enough that the portrait of Ötzi is now substantially different from what it was before the analysis.