On September 19, 1991, a German couple, Erika and Helmut Simon, were hiking in the Ötztal Valley in the Austrian Alps when they found the body of what they thought was a mountaineer who had suffered an accident.
However, the body turned out to be much older: it had been frozen in the ice for over 5,300 years. The body was named after Ötzi, and he became known as the Iceman.
Around his body they found many things, including a bow and arrows, a copper axe, a flint knife in a woven sheath, two wooden containers with maple leaves, parts of a backpack, a leather bag with small objects, fur and leather clothing, shoes, and other small objects.
Investigators believe Ötzi had an arrowhead stuck in his left shoulder and other wounds, and that he was killed.
