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TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2002

An archaeologist who attributed his discovery of mummified children in the Andes to sacrifice said he believes a 5,300-year-old Iceman discovered in the Alps of Europe died the same way.

Johan Reinhard says the Iceman was the ritually killed in some form of religious or spiritual offering. The Iceman was found with an arrow in his back, leading archaeologists to speculate as to how it got there.

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