5,300 years after Otzi the Iceman died, two Dutch forensic experts have painstakingly created the first image of the world's oldest ice mummy, relying on 3D images of the mummy's skull and ...

The newest reconstruction of Otzi the Iceman shows a prematurely old man with deep-set eyes, sunken cheeks, a furrowed face and ungroomed beard and hair. Heike Engel-21Lux / Sudtiroler ...

An off-beat experiment has poked holes in a popular assumption about Ötzi the Iceman’s tattoos. Ötzi’s roughly 5,200-year-old body, found partly preserved and naturally mummified in the ...

Genome analysis revealed traits such as high skin pigmentation, dark eye colour, and male pattern baldness (Picture: SouthTyrolMuseumArchaeology/SWNS) Otzi the 5,300-year-old mummified body ...

That mummy became known as Ötzi the Iceman, and today, his remains are housed in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Italy. Here are some of the things we’ve learned about him since the ...

The more than 5,000-year-old mummy of the Tyrolean Iceman, known as Ötzi, is pictured. A new genetic analysis has shed new light on his ancestry and appearance.

Though the Iceman mummy’s skin is obviously dark, scientists used to think that was a result of being frozen in a glacier for more than 5,000 years. A new genetic analysis reveals that Ötzi ...

For more than 30 years, scientists from around the world have flocked to a museum in the Italian Alps to learn from a 5,300-year-old man. He’s known as Ötzi the Iceman, nicknamed for the nearby Ötzal ...

A fresh genetic analysis has revealed more of the story behind Ötzi the Iceman, a remarkably well preserved human who perished in the Italian Alps around 5,300 years ago.