脰TZI, the mummy found in an Alpine glacier, is going home in two years’ time to South Tyrol, the region of northern Italy where he is thought to have lived 5000 years ago. He will end his days after years of intense investigation in a purpose-built museum, says Konrad Spindler, who heads the team at Innsbruck University in Austria which has been looking after the corpse.
When all scientific investigations are complete, 脰tzi will be moved to the museum, which is being built in Bolzano, the capital of South Tyrol.
“He will sleep in a dark chamber in a carefully controlled environment to keep him preserved,” says Spindler. In Innsbruck, 脰tzi has been kept under conditions that mimic those in the glacier where he was preserved for so many centuries. He is refrigerated at 鈭4 掳C in conditions of high humidity.
脰tzi’s final resting place will be Italy because his body was found in the 脰tztaler Alps on the Italian side of the border with Austria. Spindler says that there are no plans to exhibit the mummy itself in Bolzano.
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