Ötzi, is a mummy (Mummy) is the oldest ever found in Europe. Mummy, which is more than 5 millennium is found accidentally by two mountain climber, a pair of husband and wife from Nuremberg, Germany, called Helmut and Erika Simon on 19 September 1991. This congeal mummy found in glasier near the Austrian-Italian border. Although the location of invention in the Italian region, but initially fihak Italian authorities deal with a little averse to find these discoveries, which may only disangkanya human bones "modern" is injured or is likely to find soldiers remnants of war in Napoleon two centuries ago. Fihak Italy and Austria fihak leave to deal with all this rush to find these discoveries. The Austria at mengevakuasi successfully to find the city Innsbruck, Austria where to find it first identified.
Together find it also found some equipment and clothing such as the property of the mummy, sisa2 clothes, shoes, axes, knives and sarungnya and others. From identifying and from equipment that was found with the mummy, can be ascertained that the mummy came from the days of copper, or about 5,300 years ago. Originally suspected that the Ötzi died because of this landslide buried snow or snow storms affected. However, it appears that the alleged new Ötzi is likely died because of human sacrifice ritual, which often occur at that time.
When it is known that a mummy Ötzi is valuable because it includes the oldest mummy ever found in Europe, then try to claim fihak Italy fihak return from Austria of the "ownership" the mummy. Although fihak Austria and then to return the mummy to the fihak Italy, but the "problem" of the law who find the mummy is still a problem. Erika Simon, the wife finds the mummy (the husband Helmut Simon died in 2006) dealing with the middle of a Slovenian woman, Magdalena Mohar Jarc, and also the origin of a Swiss woman, Sandra Nemeth, who admitted to have found Ötzi before the pair Simon find it. The case up to now still hang in the court in Bolzano Italy.