Posters encouraging people to visit the "20 Years of Ötzi" exhibition at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy, February 28, 2011. Photo. PAP/APA
According to research from over ten years ago and the knowledge of that time, we assumed that the Tyrolean Iceman had blood of the "0" type, brown eyes and brown hair. He also suffered from lactose intolerance. According to these assumptions, the wax figure of Ötzi was created. Photo PAP/APA
An interactive screen displaying Ötzi's mummified body at the Archaeological Museum of South Tyrol in Bolzano, Italy. Photo PAP/APA
The current analysis by the Leipzig scientists; what they write, "confirms the phenotypic observations of the preserved mummified body, such as high skin pigmentation and the absence of hair on the head." The photo shows Ötzi's naturally mummified body on display - in a cooling chamber - at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano in 2011. Photo. PAP/APA
Therefore, according to the latest archaeogenetic research, the figure of Ötzi in the Tyrolean museum will have to be changed. He will be dark-skinned, dark-eyed, bald, and not - as today - a man with abundant hair, fair complexion and hazel eyes. South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy. Photo PAP/APA
The statue of Ötzi in the Tyrolean museum will have to be changed