On 19 September 1991 two German hikers, Helmut and Erika Simon, found a corpse emerging from melting ice in the Otztal Alps near the Italian-Austrian border. It proved to be a man who had died around 3300 BC, the oldest naturally preserved human mummy ever found in Europe. Otzi was about 45 years old, wore a grass cape and leather clothes, and carried a copper axe, a bow and a flint knife. An arrowhead lodged in his shoulder shows that he was murdered. His stomach contents, tattoos and DNA give an unmatched view of Copper Age life.
Before and after
- from 2 September 1991 to 1 January 2023Republic of Artsakh
- from 14 September 1991 to 23 November 1991Battle of the Barracks
- 17 September 1991Release of Linux kernel
- 17 September 1991Release of Linux
- 19 September 1991Otzi the Iceman is found
- October 1991Release of The Unicode Standard
- from 29 October 1991 to 3 January 1992Operation Orkan 91
- from 31 October 1991 to 4 November 1991Operation Swath-10
- 2 November 1991Release of Vim
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