New discovery about the Otzi Tape

After analyzing blood samples, the scientists confirmed that the dead otzi tape who died 5,300 years ago survived for a while before dying of a fatal arrow.

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The mummy of the Otzi tape was discovered in 1991 and displayed at the Archaeological Museum in Bolzano, Italy in 2011.

Head of the scientific team, researcher Albert Zink of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany, used nanoscale methods to test the oldest blood samples ever discovered by modern scientists, which were kept in stock. Thousands of years in cold ice on high mountains.

Otzi gangster's mummy

After using atomic force microscopy, the scientists obtained images only a few nanometers in size to identify healthy blood cell molecules.

Then, using Raman spectroscopy, they discovered immediately on the wound on the back of the Otzi band of hemoglobin and fibrin (blood) - 2 main components in blood clots.

Mr. Zink said that fibrin usually appears only on new wounds and then gradually disappears. Hence the theory that the Otzi gang died immediately after winning the arrow needs to be verified. However, it is clear that ice men will not be able to survive after a few days of injury but only for a while.

The corpses of the Otzi tape were discovered by two German climbers in September 1991 in the Oetz valley in the Alps, South Tyrol, northern Italy, 3,210 meters above the sea.

According to the study, the mummy of the Otzi gang, about 45 years old when he died, was about 1.6m tall and weighed 50kg.

The Otzi gang suffered a painful death when the arrow pierced the blood vessels between the chest and left shoulder blade and a large tear in his hand.

DNA analysis in February showed that Otzi people have brown eyes and hair, especially allergic to dairy products.

According to a 2010 study by an Italian archaeologist, based on traces of pollen in the stomach and burial place, the Otzi gang did not die in the same position that two German explorers discovered. At 1991.