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Ötzi loaded up on fatty food before he died

New analysis fills in details of the famous Iceman mummy’s last meal

Ötzi the Iceman

GUT FEELING  Ötzi’s stomach was covered in fungi, but researchers still managed to reveal new details about the Iceman’s last meal.

M. Samadelli/Eurac Research and South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology ©

By Helen Thompson

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