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He's been dead for more than 5,000 years and poked, prodded, and probed by scientists for the last 20. Yet ítzi the Iceman, the famous mummified corpse pulled from a glacier in the Italian Alps, continues to keep many secrets. Now, through an autopsy like none other, scientists will attempt to unravel mysteries about this ancient mummy.
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