A new digital reconstruction of Ötzi the Iceman’s ribcage shows a number of “ambiguous” features that might have assisted him ...

As is the case with Otzi the Iceman, Europe’s oldest known natural human mummy, who may be linked to the mysterious and bizarre deaths of several researchers connected to his discovery.

Found high in the Tyrolean Alps in 1991, Ötzi the Iceman had dark skin and eyes and was likely bald. His remarkably well-preserved remains, frozen beneath ice for about 5,300 years, revealed 61 ...

Modern tattooing experiments challenge a popular idea about how the roughly 5,200-year-old mummified man got marked with dark lines.

Tourists managed to find one of the greatest archeological discoveries ever after stumbling across a dead body that just happened to be 5,300 years old. The monumental discovery has been called the ...

In 2001, an X-ray scan discovered an arrowhead embedded in the man’s left shoulder – a likely cause of death. Until then, scientists had believed Ötzi died from exposure while crossing the mountains.

Ötzi the Iceman is one of the most well-studied individuals in human history, but there always seems to be more to learn about him. A new genomic study has now found that he didn’t look the way ...

Otzi the 5,300-year-old mummified body – discovered in melting ice in The Alps in 1991 – may have had dark skin, dark eyes and a balding head, analysis suggests. Initial studies of the corpse ...

Ötzi the Iceman may have had more in common with many of today’s middle-aged men than we realized. New research suggests that the Alps’ most famous ancient human experienced male-pattern ...

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Ötzi the Iceman, whose frozen remains were found in a gully high in the Tyrolean Alps by hikers in 1991, is perhaps the world’s most closely studied corpse. The ...

Over 5000 years ago, a man climbed up to the icy heights of a glacier in the Alps glacier and died. He was found by accident in 1991, with his clothes and equipment, mummified and frozen. He is the ...

Where was the Ice Man found? The oldest mummy in Europe, the Ice Man, was found at over 3,200 meters in altitude. Never before had a prehistoric body been found at such a remote height. In something ...