In 1991, two hikers in the Ötztal Alps found a body sticking out of the melting ice and assumed it was a recent climber, but the corpse turned out to be a 5,300-year-old man with an arrowhead in his shoulder, 61 tattoos, and a 99.7%-pure copper axe whose metal was traced to southern Tuscany, revealing long-distance Copper Age connections
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On September 19, 1991, German hikers Erika and Helmut Simon were crossing the Ötztal Alps when they spotted a human body…