This is a short interesting read about a mummy. The special
thing about this mummy is its discovery by two hikers. In Sept 1991 two German
hikers hike in the Alps, the border region where Austria meets Italy. Reinhold
Messner, a famous mountaineer later looks at the body. He believes that the
body is not hundred years old but it may be thousands of years old.
Dr. Rainer Henn comes to examine the body. Dr. Henn and his
helpers put the mummy in a bag. They take it for examination. The mummy is kept
inside a room where the temperature is 21.2 degrees Fahrenheit. This is to
prevent the mummy from rotting. Dr. Konrad Spindler later examines the mummy
and believes that it is at least 4000 years old. An axe, jacket, pants and
animal boots made of animal skins are under study. Carbon-14 dating shows that
the mummy is more than 5000 years old. The reason for the man’s death is
freezing. In Bolzano Italy a museum has been built for the Ice mummy so that
people could see it with their own eyes.
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