Ghost of a flea

Frozen Fritz

Oetzi is on the move to a new home. This is the first I have read the Austro-Italian mummy was losing weight or that he had picked up a nickname.

Oetzi's new home is a refrigerated igloo covered with dozens of iced tiles. Visitors will be able to take a peek at him through a small window shaped like those found on ships. Experts hope the new location will prevent the corpse from shedding weight. The mummy, which currently weighs just over 14kg, had been losing five grams per day. Experts hope the new location will cause the mummified remains to drop just six grams per month.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at December 3, 2003 10:11 AM