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Nov 5, 2026
Alsa BrunoGUEST
Well, the world's oldest known backpack is 5,300 years old.
Alsa BrunoGUEST
How's that for an expression? It was found on Otzi the Iceman in the Alps in 1991, made of hazelnut wood and animal hide with a frame that worked just like a modern hiking pack.
Alsa BrunoGUEST
Oh, that is cool.
Alsa BrunoGUEST
Shout out to Otzi.
GenevieveGUEST
I love little things.
GenevieveGUEST
So pocket-sized is very appealing.
GenevieveGUEST
And I love the Iceman.
GenevieveGUEST
He's so weird.
LexiHOST
there is just, this guy doesn't show up at all, but his name fucking rocks.
LexiHOST
Ötzi Malevolus.
LexiHOST
What? Like, Ötzi the Iceman, and then last name Malevolus.
LexiHOST
Yeah.
LexiHOST
Hell yeah.
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RosalindHOST
Which is
LexiHOST
pretty edgy.
LexiHOST
I think having a guy named Ötzi Malevolis...
RosannaHOST
Before anyone had pockets, there was a bag on a belt.
RosannaHOST
The oldest surviving thing in this story is Ötzi, the Copper Age man whose body came out of a glacier on the Italian-Austrian border in 1991.
RosannaHOST
He is usually dated to around 3,300 years before the Common Era.
RosannaHOST
He wore a belt made from a strip of calfskin, four or five centimeters wide and about two meters long, wrapped around his hips.
Patrick WymanHOST
Only a few of the people we examined over the course of this season were not intentionally interred.
Patrick WymanHOST
Ötzi the Iceman, who was shot with an arrow at the top of an alpine pass more than 5,000 years ago, is the most obvious example.
Patrick WymanHOST
Some bog bodies belonged to people who died accidentally and fell into murky waters.
Patrick WymanHOST
Tolundman, however, was deliberately thrown in, probably as an act of disrespect.
Patrick WymanHOST
Moreover, those items can and should work in tandem with the data we collect from molecular archaeological study.
Patrick WymanHOST
Sometimes, analyzing grave goods with archaeoscientific methods tells us something extraordinary.
Patrick WymanHOST
That Ötzi's copper axe, for example, was made from ore mined in Tuscany.
Patrick WymanHOST
Combining grave goods with analysis of remains tells us even more.
WendellGUEST
Um, and then they have XL, which is whatever is depending on the race.
WendellGUEST
So some of them are like 50, some are 60 K and then depending on which event it is, some are like, trail running some are mountain running and the one that we put on in Schmaustad that's like that sky running like you're going up to what's the highest point for sure like 3000 like give or take and I don't know if you know Ötzi like the no Let's see, it's like this human remain found place.
WendellGUEST
There was this dude four or 5,000 years ago that was up on a mountain peak, had an arrow stuck in his back and he died on the mountain and was found in the 70s.
WendellGUEST
Under snow or something? Yeah, I think the ice started to melt and everything because of climate change.
Corin ThrosbyGUEST
But with me, the two go together indissolubly.
John HopkinsHOST
Next time on Short History Of, we'll bring you a short history of Ötzi the Iceman.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yeah, he's so important because it's really a unique finding.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The combination also of his well-preserved body, the presence of all his belongings and tools and clothing and so on puts him in a very special place and gives us so much insight into his time period.
Mike TodorovicHOST
I don't have any.
Matthew BartonHOST
Do you know Otzi? Do you have a tattoo? Do you know Otzi? No, I don't.
Mike TodorovicHOST
Otzi? Otzi? Otzi.
Mike TodorovicHOST
Yeah, who's he? Otzi was, oh, what, 10,000 years? 10,000 years? Half it.
Mike TodorovicHOST
Half of that?
Matthew BartonHOST
Yeah.
Matthew BartonHOST
And this particular guy did all the different techniques that they're aware of that... cultures do tattooing yeah and so bones copper tips sorry thread threading why why you're using these
Mike TodorovicHOST
instruments to do the tattoo that's right yeah they're not tattooing bones no no no okay
MikeyHOST
The oldest known backpack ever discovered in the Alps on the border between Austria and Italy employed two narrow wooden boards and a hazel rod for a frame.
MikeyHOST
The contraption dates to around 3300 BC and is credited to Otzi the Iceman, a glacier mummy unearthed alongside it in 1991.
MikeyHOST
But what we recognize as a backpack is much newer.
MikeyHOST
In 1865, Henry Clay Merriam led a regiment of black Union troops in an attack against Fort Blakely, a Confederate stronghold in Alabama.
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speaker_3HOST
today we will be covering the ancient mysteries iceberg we will be covering legitimate ancient mysteries not nonsense like aliens building the pyramids from the first attempts at flight greek steam engines cannibal cults and technology way ahead of its time honestly the research for this video blew my mind several times as always no ai slop was used in the entirety of this video it was written and edited by humans getting paid to tell the human story so let's jump right into the first mystery Starting with Ötzi the Iceman, the 5,300-year-old ice mummy found in Northern Italy.
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In 1991, hikers spotted a body melting out of a glacier and figured it was a recently deceased hiker.
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But authorities soon found that this was a far more significant discovery.
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Archaeologists eventually uncovered 400 artifacts and fragments of clothing.
speaker_3HOST
They found stone tools, arrows, and an unfinished bow along with a copper axe.
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Ötzi himself was nearly perfectly preserved for over 5,300 years.
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He lived during the Chalcolithic period, the time when copper tools were first being smelted, and were still used alongside stone tools.
speaker_0NARRATOR
The oldest language.
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The oldest known tattoos on a human body belong to Ötzi the Iceman.
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A man who died in the Alps somewhere around 3300 BCE, whose remarkably preserved remains were discovered in 1991 and have been studied with extraordinary care ever since.
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Eitzi had 61 tattoos.
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