Meet Ötzi The Iceman, The Oldest Preserved Human Being Ever Found

It was later confirmed that “Ötzi the Iceman,” as he was dubbed by an Austrian journalist in reference to the site of his discovery in the Ötztal valley Alps, had died sometime in the Copper Age or Neolithic era between 3350 and 3100 B.C., making him the oldest preserved human being ever found.

But what made this find even more remarkable was that, unlike Egyptian and Incan mummies desiccated by desert climates, Ötzi was a “wet” mummy, found in a perfect preservation combination where the glacier he died in froze his body while the humidity in the ice preserved his organs and skin pretty much fully intact.