A new study of the mummified body of Ötzi the Iceman questions the prevailing story of his death in the high Alps more than 5,000 years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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 ...

A mere 2 hours before his grisly murder about 5,300 years ago, Ötzi the iceman chowed down on some mouthwatering morsels: wild meat from ibex and red deer, cereals from einkorn wheat and — oddly ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Ötzi the Iceman, shown here in a reconstruction, had a unique family lineage, ancient DNA of him ...

Ötzi made international headlines when he was found by a pair of climbers, sticking out of an ice patch high in the Italian alps. When he was found, Ötzi had already been dead for about 5,300 years, ...

Dive into discoveries around Ötzi the Iceman and his surprising genetic ties to Sardinians, revealing ancient European connections. But Ötzi's affinities reduce the strength of this particular dynamic ...

A new genetic analysis reveals that Otzi the Iceman is most closely related to modern-day Sardinians. Ötzi the Iceman, a stunningly preserved mummy found in the Italian Alps in 1991, has living ...

The famous Ötzi, a man murdered about 5,300 years ago in the Italian Alps, had what's now considered the world's oldest known case of Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that can cause ulcers and gastric ...

When is a tattoo parlor the perfect venue for a contemporary art show? When the art on view is Nicole Wilson’s nearly decade-long project “Ötzi,” in which she recreated each of 61 tattoos found on the ...

Researchers are attempting to piece together Ötzi the Iceman's final journey—and are using ancient moss to do it. Archaeobotanists at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, UK, have identified more ...

5,300-year-old mummy found in the Italian Alps wore clothes made from many different animals. For the past two decades, scientists have analyzed every minute detail of Ötzi, a 5,300-year-old natural ...

A prehistoric man whose naturally mummified body was discovered frozen in the Italian Alps may have been toted up the mountain by his comrades, a new study suggests. The Iceman, also nicknamed Ötzi, ...