But the man is still there.

In a refrigerator in Bolzano.

Waiting for whatever question science thinks to ask next.

The Last Word

Ötzi the Iceman is the best-preserved prehistoric human being ever found.

He is the most intensively studied archaeological specimen of his kind.

He is the subject of hundreds of scientific papers, dozens of documentaries, and thirty-three years of continuous scientific investigation.

And with all of that — with all the methods applied, all the findings produced, all the revisions and corrections and expansions of what we know about him — he remains, in his essential human dimensions, mysterious.