The 5,300-Year-Old Man Found Frozen In The Alps — And The DNA Test That Revealed His Hidden Origins
Five thousand years separate us from the event.
The attacker is gone, their identity unknown, their motivation lost in the silence of prehistory.
But the fact of the murder is established.
The first murder victim in European history whose case has been forensically investigated died in the Ötztal Alps sometime around 3300 BCE, killed by an arrow to the shoulder from behind.
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Among the most intriguing physical features preserved on Ötzi’s body are the tattoos.
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