Ötzi’s Last Days: Glacier Man May Have Been Attacked Twice

Another chapter in a murder case over 5000 years old. Scientists reconstructed the chronology of the injuries that Ötzi, the glacier man preserved as a frozen mummy, received in his last days. It turns out, for example, that he did in fact only survive the arrow wound in his back for a very short time -- a few minutes to a number of hours, but no more -- and also definitely received a blow to the back with a blunt object only shortly before his death. In contrast, the cut wound on his hand is some days older.

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