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

The Iceman was nicknamed Otzi because he was found in the Otztal Alps of South Tyrol. Otzi lived between 3100 and 3370 BC. He stood 5 feet 2 inches (1.57 meters) ...

In 1991, a group of hikers found the mummified remains of Ötzi the Iceman emerging from a melting glacier. The popular interpretation—given the extraordinary preservation of the body—is that ...

Fresh clues have emerged about the final journey of a European glacier mummy shot dead by an arrow before his body was preserved in ice for thousands of years. The latest study, published ...

Four thin, black lines, stacked on top of each other, bring the total number of tattoos on Ötzi, a 5,300-year-old mummified iceman, to 61, according to an exhaustive new study ...

The 5,000-year-old murder of Otzi the Iceman, the world's oldest cold case, is giving up many of its secrets to modern forensic science. Otzi is the world's most perfectly preserved mummy, a Copper ...

It ages me to think that my current students were just a twinkling in their parent’s eye when Otzi the Iceman was discovered - almost 30 years ago - but it seems like yesterday. I remember when ...

These morsels of vegetation were bits of moss and liverwort washed from Otzi's clothing, and with luck they would provide a clue to where he came from before his death high in the Tirolean Alps ...

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 ...