This podcast episode is about a 5,000-year-old mummy that was found in 1991 in the Austrian Alps.

It contains a short description from an expert archaeologist of the causes of death.

Some of the details may be upsetting for younger listeners.

Hello and welcome to Mysteries of Science.

My name's Dan and I'm the editor of Science and Nature, the monthly magazine from the

team behind the week junior.

And hi everyone, I'm Jenny, the features editor.

On this podcast, we explore the strange phenomena and bizarre events of left scientists scratching their heads,

and despite their best efforts, remain well and truly unsolved.

Do you have a mystery that you'd like to know the answer to?

If so, well, why not send it to us at hello at science-hyphen nature.co.uk.

Or you can send us a voice note by visiting funkidslive.com forward slash

mysteries. And no matter what the question, we'll get it answered. Today, we're investigating the

world's oldest murder mystery. It's Ertsey the Iceman. Yeah, Ertsy is a person he is who died and was mummified,

which means preserved, more than 5,000 years ago. He was found frozen inside a glacier in

1991 and ever since experts have been trying to figure out

what happened to him

and what were the mysterious circumstances

of his death.

So Jenny

let's grab our magnifying glasses

put on our Sherlock Holmes

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