An Amazing Discovery
It is September-19-1991, German tourists Helmut & Erika Simon are hiking in mountains called Alpha. Suddenly Erika sees something odd sticking up in the snow. At first, Helmut thinks it is a doll's head. But it's a man dead body lies facedown, half-buried in the ice. Quickly they take a photograph & they harry to next hikers shelter to report.
The man who runs the shelter calls the police. The police are very busy. They cannot come that day. They cannot come next day, either.
The man who runs the shelter hike up the mountain to see the body. The skin of the body is brown and dry. Broken pieces of carved wood are scattered around the body and the body is dressed in clothing made of animal skins. It gives the man from the shelter an odd feeling
The police phone Dr. Rainer Henn a medical examiner. The police want him to figure out what happened to the man in the ice. After one look Dr. Henn knows that this is a big discovery. Dr. Henn has seen many dead bodies before. But he has never seen one like this. It's a Mummy!
Dr. Henn knows the mummy must be moved very carefully. But he does not have the right tools. So Dr. Henn borrows an as and a ski pole from a hiker. He chops at the ice around the body. It's hard work. But finally, he drags the mummy out.
Around its waist is a kind of tool belt. On the belt is a small knife with a wooden handle and the blade is made of stone! They pick up everything they find around the site. The carved wood, an ax and they take the mummy to the medical school where Dr. Henn works. Dr. Henn asks other scientists to look at it.
Meanwhile, people all over the world are talking about the frozen mummy.
Who was he?
Where is he being kept?
What is the big secret?
Meanwhile, something is happening to the mummy. Something is growing on the mummy's skin. It looks as if mold is spreading all over his body. The Iceman is thawing out!
The scientists act quickly. First, they wash the Iceman with a hospital germ killer. Then they put him in a cold room. Inside the room, it's 21.2 degrees Fahrenheit.
Finally, the mummy is examined by an archaeologist Dr. Konrad Spindler. He looks closely at the body and at the knife with the stone blade. But most of all, he looks at the Iceman's ax. This ax tells us that the Iceman is at least 4000 years old!
A scientific test called carbon-14 dating can tell the age of almost anything that ever lived-animals, plants or things like cloth, which comes from animals or plants. Carbon-14 dating show he is more than 5000 years old!
The mummy is in such good condition that we know for sure he gad blue eyes, a gap between his front teeth and a neat haircut. He was five feet two and weighed 110 pounds. He wore an earring in his right ear & had tattoos on his back, legs, and feet.
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