Remember the discovery of the Iceman?

[lunatica]

The well-preserved mountaineer died 5,300 years ago, he acquired a nickname: Ötzi the Iceman, after the Ötzal Alps where he was found.

Here's a modern reconstruction of his face



Meet the New, Old Ötzi

Image courtesy Heike Engel/21Lux, Südtiroler Archäologiemuseum, and NG Deutschland

Prematurely aged, with leathery, wrinkled skin, deep-set eyes, and a shaggy beard, this new reconstruction of "Ötzi" the Iceman is a far cry from past reconstructions that showed him as a strapping middle-aged man.

Notably, the new model, developed by Dutch artists Alfons and Adrie Kennis, has brown eyes based on recent research that showed the 5,000-year-old Iceman did not have blue eyes, as previously thought.

The latest Iceman reconstruction is based on new 3-D scans of Ötzi's body and will be the focus of an exhibition called "Ötzi 20," which will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the naturally mummified body's discovery in the Italian Alps. "Ötzi 20" will run from March 1 to January 15, 2012, at the South Tyrol Museum of Archeology in Bolzano, Italy.

"The aim of the exhibition is to present a more rounded picture of Ötzi beyond the purely scientific aspect," museum director Angelika Fleckinger said in a statement.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/02/pictures/110225-otzi-iceman-new-face-science-mummy-oetzi/

You can see more pictures of Ötzi the Iceman at the link.

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. Looks like Charlie Sheen in a few more years

Cheers!

[lunatica]

3. He looks like an older Dennis Kucinich

This photo is amazing.

[Auggie]

6. Yes!

[jberryhill]

2. I used to hang out with that guy at Grateful Dead concerts /nt

[lunatica]

4. Every few years something surprising comes out about the iceman

At first they didn't see the arrowhead in his shoulder and didn't discover it for a few years.

[petronius]

5. Really fascinating! Following through those links, it really seems to me that the

'deliberate burial' hypothesis works better than the original 'bled-out while fleeing' scenario...

[stevedeshazer]

7. He's Dennis Kucinich as an old hippie.

Seriously.

[Angry Dragon]

8. the weeping boner after a few

[roguevalley]

9. he has tattoos on his body that indicate accupuncture. accupuncture

done hundreds if not thousands of years before it was supposed to be invented in China. The ancient world is not as cut and dried as we thought. He is a handsome man with character.

[eleny]

10. This imaging effort give me the happy chills