Between life and death
The preserved Tyrolean Iceman Ötzi is joined by 70 mummies, many displayed for the first time, in an exhibition that opened this week at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy. Mummies: The Dream of Everlasting Life examines the science and culture of mummification, with diverse examples of humans and animals preserved in various ways and drawn from South America and Asia to ancient Egypt.
Ötzi the Iceman, the exhibition's host, was found frozen into a glacier in the Ötzal Alps near the Austria–Italy border in 1991. He died there from an arrow wound to the shoulder around 3300 BC, and is thought to have been a hunter, although his identity is unclear. “Since Ötzi cannot leave the museum,” explains Bolzano archaeologist Andreas Putzer, “this is a unique occasion to see these mummies together.”
Curated together with the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums in Mannheim, Germany, the collection includes 20 mummies that were discovered in that museum's basement during renovations in 2004. Thought to have been lost, they had been hidden there for protection during the Second World War.
Curated together with the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums in Mannheim, Germany, the collection includes 20 mummies that were discovered in that museum's basement during renovations in 2004. Thought to have been lost, they had been hidden there for protection during the Second World War.
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