He’s known as Ötzi the Iceman, nicknamed for the nearby Ötzal Alps, where he was found in 1991. The 5-foot, 2-inch 110-pound corpse is a mummy, preserved essentially as he looked the day he died.

Otzi was found with mummified remains of the clothing ... The experts figured that the iceman lived in the Copper Age which spanned from 3,500 B.C. to 1,700 B.C. The mummy was later transferred ...

They found dark spots at the back of the iceman mummy's cerebrum and concluded ... Archaeologists believe Otzi, who was carrying a bow, a quiver of arrows and a copper axe, may have been a hunter ...

When two hikers set out to explore a relatively unknown side of Europe they returned with much more than they bargained for.

He also found a tiny muscle fiber and a burned bit of bone, evidence that the Iceman might also have eaten a meat. What kind of meat Oeggl cannot yet say, nor can he determine how much of the meal ...

Perhaps the most famous, frozen for more than 5,000 years on a remote mountain pass is Otzi, the iceman. Who was this man that lived nearly a thousand years before the pyramids and why did his ...