The 5,300-Year-Old Man Found Frozen In The Alps — And The DNA Test That Revealed His Hidden Origins
Since his discovery in 1991, Ötzi has lived a second life as a museum specimen, a scientific resource, and a cultural phenomenon.
He resides in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy — the institution whose jurisdiction over the iceman was established after a careful survey determined that the discovery site, which sits almost precisely on the Austrian-Italian border, was actually a few meters inside Italian territory.
Italy thus acquired what may be the most scientifically important human specimen in Europe.
The museum was specifically designed and built to house Ötzi and to display the astonishing collection of his belongings.
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