10 Famous Preserved Corpses

The corpse known as Ötzi the Iceman is ridiculously old. To put in perspective how old this iceman is, Ötzi would have been alive sometime in 3200 BC. This would be around the time when a bunch of Pagans in Britain decided to make a giant henge of stone.

Ötzi's preserved body was found in 1991 in the Ötztal Alps (thus the name) between the border of Austria and Italy. The body was discovered, frozen in a mass of ice, by two German tourists. It took three days for the body to become completely free and movable.

After a brief stint at the University of Innsbruck, Ötzi was moved to the Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano in 1998 where he remains on display. Apart from having the privilege of being named after an entire mountain range, Ötzi is the oldest naturally-preserved human ever found.

Forensic scientists have worked out that Ötzi died in his early 40s, was lactose intolerant, and his last meal was a modest feast of goat and grain. The cause of death remains inconclusive (we have enough trouble solving murders from a week ago) but he did have the blood of four other people on him, an arrowhead lodged in his back and a severe blow to the head. So probably natural causes?