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One of the most famous corpses was in the headlines today—Otzi the iceman, who died in the Alps around 5,300 years ago and whose well-preserved corpse was discovered in 1991.
Insights into Ötzi’s sequenced genome were published today in Nature Communications.
Previous studies found that the iceman was killed by an arrow, from behind. But today’s paper suggests that many other health issues could have caught up with him, sooner or later.
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