Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Can 5,300-year-old mummy finally get its voice?
Otzi the Iceman. He’s a 5,300-year-old mummy. Unlike the royal mummies in
Egypt, he was found alone in one of the glaciers in Alps, up 3,000 meters high
in 1991. He is estimated to have been 45 when he was murdered by someone and
then was unintendedly mummified by nature.
Now researchers are trying to bring his voice back. They are hopeful to
recreate his vowel sounds and possibly some consonant sounds, as well. But just
the voice, not words because they have no idea what kind of language he was
speaking back then.
How will that be possible?
Enjoy reading and leaning what today’s archology and medical science can
reveal or recreate from a mummy.
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