What is the oldest naturally preserved body?

Ötzi, also called the Iceman, is the natural mummy of a man who lived between 3350 and 3105 BC. Ötzi's remains were discovered on 19 September 1991, in the Ötztal Alps (hence the nickname Ötzi, German: [œtsi]) at the border between Austria and Italy.



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Seriously: at least in America, it is legal to mummify a corpse. There are organizations there that do this kind of thing. I am not sure about other countries, but I believe most of them don't have any laws on mummification at all.

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In January 2023, a group of archaeologists excavating tombs in the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, near Cairo, discovered the mummified remains of a man named Hekashepes, who lived circa 2300BC.

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The nearly 4,300-year-old mummy was found in a shaft 15 metres below the ground in the middle of an excavation path near the famous Saqqara pyramid. The mummy was a man named Hekashepes, whose remains lay in a sealed limestone sarcophagus.

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The mummy, of a man named Hekashepes, featured a “gold-leaf covering” and was in a limestone sarcophagus that had been sealed in mortar. “I put my head inside to see what was inside the sarcophagus: a beautiful mummy of a man completely covered in layers of gold,” Hawass said.

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