Glacier mummy gets a new face by Dutch Artists!!
08 Mar 2011
As part of a new exhibit at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, two Dutch experts – Alfons and Adrie Kennis – have made a new model of the living Oetzi, this time with brown eyes.
Iceman Oetzi, whose mummified body was famously found frozen in the Italian Alps in 1991, will get a new face for the 20th anniversary of his discovery.
Indeed, recent research has shown the Iceman, now approaching the tender age of 5,300 years, did not have blue eyes as previously believed.
Oetzi’s notoriety has also been linked to a supposed curse surrounding the mummy, after several people including authors, researchers, even mountain guides who came in contact with it died over the years.
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