Couple Discovers a Mysterious, 5,300-Year-Old Iceman While Hiking in the Alps

Well-Preserved Corpse

5300 year old iceman
IMAGE BY: YouTube/Smithsonian Channel

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Once the body was freed from the ground, the focus switched to finding out who exactly he may have been. Because he had been buried in ice, he had been well-preserved, so trying to pinpoint a death date was going to be tricky.

 

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