Heritage Key notes that Otzi, the 5000 year old iceman, has a new reconstructed face and garb:"A man of medium height, slight yet wiry, with narrow, sharp features, an unruly beard and tanned skin.
“Twenty years ago the discovery of this man, his mysterious death, the unique insights into his life and world, all profoundly affected us”, says Erwin Brunner, editor-in-chief of National Geographic Germany.
“And now we can finally look him in the eyes and recognise, to our amazement, that he is really one of us!”
more at this NatGeo article if you read German.
Lucky for us the museum where he resides has more in English, and they even have a page for kids.
and, of course, there is that "curse of the Iceman" legend in the making...
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