National Geographic History - 05.2019 - 06.2019
18 MAY/JUNE 2019 does not take them, not even a valuable copper ax. The body will stay undisturbed on this glacier for thousands ...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 19 studied corpses in history. Because his body was so well preserved, scientists have learned much ...
1 EMBEDDED IN ICE After the body was found in September 1991, authorities wanted to move it before it attracted too much attenti ...
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22 MAY/JUNE 2019 2 FATA L FA L L Gregory A. Harlin’s watercolor for the National Geographic Society imagines Ötzi’s final moment ...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 23 SOUTH TYROL MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY/AUGUSTIN OCHSENREITER Wear and Tear Ötzi’s joints all showed ag ...
3 T he objects found scattered near the body presented researchers with new clues about life in the Copper Age. His combi- natio ...
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26 MAY/JUNE 2019 ANCIENT INK For many years, only about 30 tattoos had been identified on Ötzi’s body, but in 2015 this figure d ...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 27 ROBERT CLARK/GETTY IMAGES ROBERT CLARK/GETTY IMAGES KENNETH GARRETT/GETTY IMAGES Ötzi carried a p ...
28 MAY/JUNE 2019 5 ÖTZI’S ORIGINS COPPER AGE CLUES KENNETH GARRETT/GETTY IMAGES KENNETH GARRETT WESTEND61/AGE FOTOSTOCK HIGH AND ...
KENNETH GARRETT/GETTY IMAGES THE COPPER AGE The period when Ötzi lived is now known by historians as the Copper Age, which laste ...
30 MAY/JUNE 2019 6 LAST SUPPER Scientists thought Ötzi was vegetarian until a 2018 study of his stomach contents (right) reveale ...
X-RAY OF ÖTZI’S TORSO, SHOWING THE ENTRY POINT OF THE FATAL ARROW (CIRCLED) RIEDMILLER/CARO PHOTO/CORDON PRESS MURDER WEAPON The ...
CARRYING THE GOD Priests bear the sacred bark of the god Amun on their shoulders during the Feast of Opet on a 15th-century B.C. ...
OF OPET Karnak to Luxor in a carefully stage-managed display of royal power. MARINA ESCOLANO-POVEDA ...
E very year ancient Egyptians eagerly anticipated the coming of Akhet, the flooding season. Meaning “inunda- tion,” Akhet was th ...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 35 GÜNTER GRÄFENHAIN/FOTOTECA 9X12 JOURNEY’S BEGINNING During Opet the sacred barks with the statues ...
Karnak. His successors continued improve- ments to the temple’s ceremonial spaces, con- structing processional avenues, courts, ...
BALAGE BALOGH/RMN-GRAND PALAIS THE CELEBRATION BEGINS This 20th-century illustration by American artist Balage Balogh re-creates ...
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