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 mystery over his violent death ...

The Iceman's Last Meal by Brenda Fowler The Iceman did not die on a full stomach. Eight hours before his death on a barren Alpine pass, he was in the valley to the south, in what is today Italy's ...

Ötzi the Iceman, shown here in a reconstruction, had a unique family lineage, ancient DNA of him and his Copper Age neighbors reveals.© Getty Images ...

The Iceman cometh New genetic analysis of Ötzi the Iceman yields some surprising findings Ötzi’s ancestors were early Anatolian farmers, not Steppe Herders as previously believed.

(Image credit: Leopold Nekula/Sygma via Getty Images) When Ötzi the Iceman was ambushed and killed about 5,300 years ago in the Alps, he may have been balding and getting fat, a new study suggests.

Ötzi the Iceman, whose 5,300-year-old body was found by hikers in the Tyrolean Alps, has 61 tattoos. Scientists now think they understand the technique behind them.

NEWS 16 August 2023 Ötzi the Iceman has a new look: balding and dark-skinned Improved DNA analysis updates thinking on alpine mummy’s skin colour, ancestry and more.

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 ...