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Otzi The Iceman Research Paper
Otzi the Iceman is the best kept mummy that we have come to discover, and with this we know he died what is believed to be a pretty horrific death. The climate around the time of Iceman’s death could not have helped his will to survive, scientists believe he was buried inside of the Similaun Glacier’s ice. The death itself caused by a fatal arrow to the back did not kill the man right away, leaving him to suffer a painful death. Iceman, through all of his struggle managed to make his way to the top of the mountain. Even with what scientists discovered, that his right hand had been severely cut all the way to tendons, his left arm perhaps paralyzed by the arrow attack, a cut on his left hand along with his right forearm, and three intense

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