Edward64
02-27-2011, 02:51 AM
Remember that frozen iceman they found in Europe in the 90's? See below for reconstructed picture. Pretty cool, but what took them so long?
FoxNews.com - Artists Recreate the Face of Otzi, a 5,300-Year-Old Iceman Mummy (http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/25/artists-recreate-face-5300-year-old-iceman-mummy/?test=faces)
Take a good look at this face: It hasn't been seen in over five millennia.
in the year 3289 BC, Otzi trekked up the Schnalstal glacier in the Italian Alps. The Neolithic guy -- dubbed Otzi the Iceman, or "Frozen Fritz" -- wore a coat and leggings made of sheep's fur and moccasins made of cattle leather as he climbed, having just polished off his last meal: unleavened bread and meat.
Severely wounded by an arrow and possibly dispatched with a blow to the head by a cudgel, he died, his body froze and was mummified, and he lay in place for a very, very long time.
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Now, 5,300 years later two Dutch forensic experts Alfons and Adrie Kennis have painstakingly created the first image of Otzi, relying on 3D images of the mummy's skull and infrared and tomographic images, Discovery News said.
FoxNews.com - Artists Recreate the Face of Otzi, a 5,300-Year-Old Iceman Mummy (http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/25/artists-recreate-face-5300-year-old-iceman-mummy/?test=faces)
Take a good look at this face: It hasn't been seen in over five millennia.
in the year 3289 BC, Otzi trekked up the Schnalstal glacier in the Italian Alps. The Neolithic guy -- dubbed Otzi the Iceman, or "Frozen Fritz" -- wore a coat and leggings made of sheep's fur and moccasins made of cattle leather as he climbed, having just polished off his last meal: unleavened bread and meat.
Severely wounded by an arrow and possibly dispatched with a blow to the head by a cudgel, he died, his body froze and was mummified, and he lay in place for a very, very long time.
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Now, 5,300 years later two Dutch forensic experts Alfons and Adrie Kennis have painstakingly created the first image of Otzi, relying on 3D images of the mummy's skull and infrared and tomographic images, Discovery News said.