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Otzi, for those not up on their 5,300-year-old mummified men, died and was frozen in the Alps near Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria and Italy. His body is one of the most preserved human mummies in Europe and now he’s getting a 3D-printed makeover.
Researchers and engineers have worked together with 3D-printing firm Materialise to ideally scan Otzi. This allows for researchers to 3D print his tortured frame over and over again and, in an informative episode of Nova, an artist can turn it into a ideal replica of the mummy for study by researchers and future museum-goers. Otzi, for his part, his hanging out in a climate-controlled vault in Italy so he does not degenerate.
The engineers had to return it into a few of Otzi’s parts of scratch, a feat possible thanks to 3D versioning techniques. From the release:
The episode of Nova airs tonight on PBS. It is not clear whether or not Otzi can rise of the dead and attack the camera crew like a Game Of Thrones White Walker during the program, but all signs point to “no.”
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