Do you like frozen Copper Age mummies? There's an app for that.
Italy’s famous Iceman mummy is set to hit iPads and iPhones with a new app allowing youngsters to learn about his Copper Age life and the stream of scientific discoveries made about him.
The application aims to provide “fun ways to get to know Europe’s oldest natural human mummy”, including games featuring his well-known tattoos - rumoured to have been copied by Brad Pitt - and “his extraordinary gear including his bow and arrow”, said the Larixpress publishing house in the Iceman’s northern Italian hometown of Bolzano.
Larixpress developed the app in collaboration with the Alto Adige (South Tyrol) Archaeological Museum, where the mummy is kept in a refrigerated cell. New discoveries about the 5,300-year-old Iceman, dug out of a northern Italian glacier in 1991 and also known as Oetzi from the Alpine valley where he was found, are being made all the time.
