Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Tuesday, July 13, 2010  [Link to this | Blog home]

The main tourist attraction in Bolzano has to be the "iceman" mummy in the Museum of Archeology. The rest of the museum is pretty standard fare and Ötzi the iceman looks pretty much like the (much younger) bodies found in Danish peat bogs. But the real scoop is the amazing amount of facts that scientists have deducted from the find - clothing, diet, lifestyle, diseases. Including evidence that not only was he killed in the last of a number of attacks, suffered in the last few days of his life. History doesn't come more alive than this.