He looks familiar because Ötzi is family, a great-grandfather 265 generations removed, which is not speculation: according to one source 19 of his genetic relatives have been found living in the Tyrolean area. He looks strangely familiar-like a shirtless football fan ready to have his chest painted. Scientists have even constructed a replica of his body, seen above. In the past 26 years, Ötzi has been probed, scanned, dissected, and tested. He is known as Ötzi (rhymes with Yahtzee) the Iceman, a 5,300 year old mummy found in a melting glacier in 1991 high in the Tyrolean Alps. Yet, we know what he ate for his last meal and what he wore on the day he died. He died before the wheel was invented, before writing was invented and before the first pyramids were built.
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