Thousands of attendees voted overwhelmingly in Otzi’s favor, acknowledging its groundbreaking approach to design and ...

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 Italian Alps ...

Researchers have determined the cause of death for Otzi, the 5,000-year-old mummy found -- carrying an REI-geek kitbag and wearing some highly sophisticated shoes-- in 1991 in the Italian Alps. Though ...

MYSTERIOUS tattoos adorning a 5,300-year-old mummified corpse known as “Otzi the Iceman” may have been inscribed as a primitive form of acupuncture, experts claim. Otzi, a frozen 5,300-year-old man, ...

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 ...

The Iceman's hand is pictured. Credit: South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology/EURAC/M.Lafogler A study was published last week on the DNA of Helicobacter pylori, the ...

Otzi, for those not up on their 5,300-year-old mummified men, died and was frozen in the Alps near Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria and Italy. His body is one of the best preserved human ...

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 ...

If you were thinking that the ancient Alpine traveler known as Otzi — and often known simply as Iceman — scraped by on a diet of foraged grasses and berries, you’d be very wrong. A comprehensive new ...

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, ...

BOLZANO, Italy — Twenty-five years ago this month, two hikers stumbled upon one of the great archaeological finds of the last century: the frozen, mummified remains and personal possessions of a man ...

Otzi, a frozen 5,300-year-old man found mummified in a glacier in the Alps in 1991, has been examined multiple times by scientists MYSTERIOUS tattoos adorning a 5,300-year-old mummified corpse known ...